skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well... You may still use their diplomatic services, vote, and freely return to B without first asking for permission. But I agree that you should be billed accordingly to the expenses you actually generate and that the process should be as painless (and cheap for B's government) as possible - something like a fixed amount per citizen that could be waived if you declare you are too poor to pay it.

How much does a citizen cost to B's government?
The shrinking of the middle class is something we should all be concerned about.

What's the evidence that the middle class has really shrunk? There's certainly evidence that the very highest incomes have climbed substantially since, say, 1980, but can you find numbers that suggest that there are fewer households making at least middle class incomes? Here's a good bit from a guy at Brookings earlier this year:

http://www.nationalreview.com/agenda/288306/guest-post-scott...

Krueger’s claim of a shrinking middle class relies on the same peculiar definition. Specifically, “middle class” is defined as having a household income at least half of median income but no more than 1.5 times the median. I re-ran the numbers using the same definition and data source as Krueger and found that the entire reason the middle class has “shrunk” is that more households today have incomes that put them above middle class. That’s right, the share of households with income that puts them in the middle class or higher was 76 percent in 1970 and 75 percent in 2010—two figures that are statistically indistinguishable.
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It won't last a year with several parallel bubbles (one on the other side of Atlantic, another on the other side of Pacific) imploding.
I love and endorse Puzzle+. Soooooo improved over AcrossLite, even with its happy pencil.
Pedantic nonsense. What exactly is the difference between "he's stupid" and "he's acting stupid"? The only one I can spot is the latter avoids labeling the person while still condemning them for the act. PC nonsense without substance, IMNSHO.

However, he does touch on something Dan Kahneman in his
'Thinking, Fast and Slow' talks about: most people stop thinking at first intuitive answer (aka System 1) and don't bother engaging in the tiring deep thought (aka System 2).
Is this comment intended to be a critique of the speech, or in concurrence with the speech?
Love it or shove it?
Great essay on need for more computer scientists: Look to Heavens: a Parable
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They invented Ruby on Rails.
meant to put 2x here, not 3x.
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Agreed. My father didn't help as directly as he could've.
But he worked hard, provided a good life, and because of his job all the materials I needed were either readily available or easily borrowed.

Honestly the greatest thing my dad ever did was give me his work phone-number (before e-mail was considered strictly a necessity.) Granted you can't answer for your kid all the time - but demonstrating your willingness to be available goes a long way in the mind of a child.
I ever dreamed of a p2p information system. you start and save a piece of message on your computer, and this information will spread out to connected peers.

from the government side, they can't tell who is the message starter, and there are so many redundancies. There is no single server to block.

of course, there are concerns about spamming. But spams may be filtered by voting.

but the gov can use this feature to censor information.

difficult problem.
Yes. Sometimes music isn't easily available, and in those cases I'd try to buy modern versions or merch.
Sadly, stories like this are getting more and more common.
Learn to code, but don't quit your day job
Yet another follow up to jeff-atwood
I'm the author. Nice to meet you. What do you mean by selling product directly? ecommerce? or enterprise sales? or something else?
While the wording could use some work, it is something to think about. When people ask what I do my general response is, "I destroy jobs". I could just as easily say, "I create wealth" or whatnot, but for people stuck in the mindset that job's are created when work needs to be done it's an accurate statement.

The reality is, the idea of a 'job creator' is somewhat ridiculous, but the language was chosen for a reason which is worth examining.
Thanks. I like to write about personal hacks -- debugging the wetware, fixing health issues at their roots that doctors claim cannot be fixed, effective parenting for challenging children. So you are probably not my target audience. Trying to think such things through for myself, I guess. I agree with your distaste for what amounts to lecturing. I have a half formed thought for a piece about that which might get written, or at leasted started, today.

Thank you for the feedback.
http://www.parallax.com/Portals/0/Downloads/docs/cusapps/Pro...
The normal computer graphics meaning, then.
How was he able to start an immigration process without a university degree? Was it because he is from Australia and not, say, Brazil? I'd love to move to the US as well, but without a degree that's basically impossible for me.
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Feynman video:  The essence of science explained in 63 seconds (1964)
No, the capital returned to a VC fund after an exit is not reinvested. It's distributed to the LPs. And while yes, strictly speaking, the LPs now have more money to invest than they had before, they are mostly giant endowments, pension funds, and foundations who only have a small fraction of their assets in VC funds, and whose future investment decisions are decided by asset allocation policies and not by recent returns.

The way big exits cause more money to be invested by VCs is not that capital is freed up thereby, but rather that news of them makes more people want to start or invest in VC funds. But that process is much slower.
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This is a really bizarre move by TED. If they don't release all their videos because they just don't have the capacity or whatever, fine. But to not release a video because it sort of supports one side of the political spectrum is completely absurd. I thought TED was _supposed_ to be provocative?

Shame on Chris Anderson for the poor handling of this.
Actually, the process is just getting started. I'm looking into a variety of paths, but I'm not going to 'really' start the process till I'm 18. From there I will likely go a J-1 route.

I would love the O-1, but I'm afraid I don't yet have enough press coverage, or letters of recommendation. Working on it.
According to iTunes, "jailbreak" is a four-letter word
"But this is all getting off topic. What I was originally addressing was the OP's comment of "sorry, we lost your stuff, oh well". If you want that peace of mind, you're going to be paying for it."

Agreed.
FPGAs not expensive? Please let me know where you shop...
Wow, things move fast. I thought they only started using skimlinks a few months ago! Thanks.
At JSConf Alexis was wishing someone would take over project maintenance and free him up entirely for LESS project direction & language design. The relative commits are quite relevant.
It's interesting how good Feynman's handwriting was (on the chalkboard).
The black box is getting more complex...this is a problem I hate to see ourselves and any other startups have...
Yep, look at Node.js when Ryan Dahl passed off the reins to Isaac Schlueter. The project is obviously strong as ever, and I think it probably helps that they're both at Joyent. So maybe the succession planning lesson learned here is to name a successor AND make it someone you can continue to regularly communicate with.
Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook ring in IPO with all-night hackathon
I'll put this in the recently read rather than great science fiction thread:

Robopocalypse: A Novel by Daniel H. Wilson
I don't see any similarity between the two. Blacks were trying to obtain equal rights. The right to marry same sex is one that no one has, not just gay people.
Well: the ones I really care about are either (a) in my contacts, (b) hacker types that have Google+ (I presume "Google" includes all google services.), or (c) I have their e-mail.

Now, I would lose touch with a lot of people BUT I would still hear all the important things through word of mouth.

I find that I don't honestly use FB to stay in touch. I use it as a glorified soapbox / timewaster.

I know that I could live w/o Facebook because days go by where I don't check it at all. (I haven't really looked at it since Diablo 3 came out, for example. Then again, I haven't talked to my IRL friends either.)

Not a day goes by that I don't have to use a Google service (they're my email provider, for starters. also as a programmer Google is kind of a necessity.)

And my iPhone? Well. I feel kind of naked if I don't have it.(or it isn't charged.)
There's a really weird helplessness that comes with being unable to call for help at any given moment in time.
I think the idea is, it's like the difference between searching for new cancer treatments and bringing a promising treatment to market. If it takes the same kind of expertise to do both, then spending more time on one means less on the other.

Still no idea if that's true of AI, but I found a couple of interesting cites:

Patrick Winston, director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997, echoed Minsky. "Many people would protest the view that there's been no progress, but I don't think anyone would protest that there could have been more progress in the past 20 years. What went wrong went wrong in the '80s."

Winston blamed the stagnation in part on the decline in funding after the end of the Cold War and on early attempts to commercialize AI. But the biggest culprit, he said, was the "mechanistic balkanization" of the field, with research focusing on ever-narrower specialties such as neural networks or genetic algorithms. "When you dedicate your conferences to mechanisms, there's a tendency to not work on fundamental problems, but rather [just] those problems that the mechanisms can deal with," said Winston.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/37525/

They don't go into detail about how the early attempts to commercialize contributed to the problem. This site does, but seems less trustworthy:

In the early 1980s, dark clouds also settled over the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab as it split into factions by initial attempts to commercialize Artificial Intelligence (AI). In fact, some of MIT's best White Hats left the AI Lab for high-paying jobs at start-up companies.

http://computer.yourdictionary.com/golden-age-era

So it sounds like some smart people in academia in the 80s think that some stones were left unturned, or turned too slowly, and that part of the problem was a refocus on making money on existing discoveries. According to that AI winter link, the tech mostly wasn't ready for primetime yet, presumably making it even harder to raise funds for new research.
There's also something to be said about the novelty of the information that is presented.

TED is about exciting ideas (or at least, that's what I understand them to be).

From the talk: "In a capitalist economy, the true job creators are consumers, the middle class. And taxing the rich to make investments that grow the middle class, is the single smartest thing we can do for the middle class, the poor and the rich."

That is his "exciting idea" -- something that pretty much anyone who is interested in tax reform has heard before. There was nothing groundbreaking about it, no new information, and certainly no unique solution to the problem. It was literally a reiteration of political talking points that have existed for a very long time, which to be frank, is not very interesting. I even remember Mark Cuban blogging about this very same topic a few months ago, and this is an idea that isn't particularly unique.

Still, since he was invited to speak, I think his video should be part of TED's web site, but saying that he was bringing any new discussion to the table is quite generous.

Instead of implying that its motivations were political, TED could have simply said this: "The talk was interesting, but we had other talks we wanted to feature first." Boom. Done. No PR headaches.

I think this is a more generous summary of Anderson's intentions from the article: "Nick, I personally share your disgust at the growth in inequality in the US, and would love to have found a way to give people a clearer mindset on the issue, without stoking a tedious partisan rehash of all the arguments we hear every day in the mainstream media."

The talk didn't present anything new, so it doesn't need to be featured.
Because we need encryption for that, or...?
The benchmark is profits. "Instapintora" might work out well for its founders, but DHH argues that grabbing a ton of users and hoping for the best isn't a good general strategy for building a business. I'd amend that slightly by saying that companies with a huge number of users are valuable, either as eventual cash cows or as strategic acquisitions, but at best following that route is a risky strategy. Sure, you might win the startup lottery, but you probably won't. Actually charging customers with the goal of becoming profitable in the shorter term is a likelier route to success. Even if you don't end up with a cash cow, you still have a good chance at a cash goat—which is still worth milking.
I'd budget like $1000-$1200/ month. I paid $900/month just for rent when I went through the program. And eating at restaurants is an easy $20/day on the low-low end. $20*30 = $600/month. That's already $1500/month. If you're really diligent, you can cut a lot of the food cost by going to 2-3 meetups every week and getting free meals. Or eating the $5 special at Subway every single day every single meal like I did. (I may never eat a Tuna Jalapeno sub again in my life.)
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Thank you for keeping a good perspective on the bubble commentary. I've been impressed with your (always top) comments on threads such as these lately, and it is always good to consider the perspective that you are sharing.

That's all, no discussion, just a thanks from at least me and I'm sure a bunch of other folks that feel the same way. It's to the point now where I see a story like this and mentally wager that you're here, at the top, before I click.
I just re-read the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy. Always makes me laugh and is a great read.
Google Search, or Google [Books, Docs, YouTube, Google+, Answers, GMail, etc.]

If the latter, you are far stronger-willed than I, sir!
Let's assume they have an average net worth of not $1M but $10M each, and that the US government is able to confiscate 100% of it, leaving them utterly penniless but netting $18B.

The federal deficit for 2012 was ~$1.3 trillion, so that $18B is about 1.5% of the shortfall.

I'm not saying $18B isn't significant - but focusing on 'the rich' or 'expatriates' or any other high-net-worth group just isn't going to solve America's problems.
It would be Ad Hominem if hnhg said "that's racist, therefore you're wrong" but all he said was "that's racist"
Whoa, that's even cheaper than the Asus WL-520GU I used for a similar project. (OpenWRT Wifi router + USB sound dongle => streaming music around the house) Good to know!
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Teaching Java -- an enterprise tool -- in high school is an abomination. High school students should learn about programming ; e.g. using Python. To throw in some fun, focus on simple game platforms designed specifically to teach high school students (e.g. a project at MIT or Rice, can't remember) or web development.

Teaching Java in high school simply drive talented students away from CS in the first place.
This of course true. Except in our economy, isn't the onus on the businesses to attract customers? I would say that therefore businesses are more responsible for job creation (because they are the ones creating value) than consumers who are merely determining which businesses have the best offerings.

The only thing I can see not working this way would be an extreme version of kickstarter, where consumers would put out a bounty for a specific product or service and have businesses form to provide it. At that point, they would be more actively "creating jobs."
Wow, that's pretty cool. To some degree it's inevitable that a company will become more bureaucratic and less hackerly as it grows, but Mark seems determined to resist that tendency as much as one can.
Agreed!

"Male" isn't one homogenous lump of people; neither is "female". And, as you mentioned, neither is "transgender(ed)"[1].

[1]: http://www.paulinepark.com/2011/03/glaad-is-wrong-on-transge...
Indeed. IMHO the concerns expressed by some here about relying on Ruby are greatly exaggerated.

For anyone who is curious, the steps required to use SASS on Windows are something like:

1. Download RubyInstaller from rubyinstaller.org and run it. (This is a self-contained Windows installer for Ruby and the related tools/documentation.)

2. Run "gem install sass" at a command prompt. (This downloads and installs SASS itself, including SCSS.)

Personally, I'd love it if Ninite picked Ruby up as an option, because I already install many other tools that way in a single step. However, installing Ruby manually is no harder than installing any other piece of Windows software you download, and installing SASS on top is literally a one-liner.

Unless you're developing on a relatively old and low-powered system, I don't see any downside to having the extra software installed either: it's just another tool, occupying a few MB of hard drive and a few characters in your PATH, and IME it's perfectly friendly toward development toolchains for other languages.
An interesting question is what happens when you renounce citizenship for political reasons (for this exercise, consider someone who fundamentally disagrees with the current employment of military force). Shouldn't this rule, one that effectively punishes such forms of protest, go against the 1st amendment?
To call this a bubble, one must first describe what one means by a bubble...Please, I beg of you, if you're going to jump and down and yell "bubble" at least add something to the conversation or back it up with something.

Is there something broken about the hiring market? 37signals might be closer to that than Google.
pwpwp, there is no point in encrypting traffic between 2 processes on the same machine, as the data is already in memory unencrypted. In fact, there's not a lot of point in encrypting traffic between 2 machines on the same internal network. Only when you hit the internet, does traffic need encrypting.
The value of labor isn't inherent, it's determined by the market. Ditch digging is worth less than programming in the market only because there are more ditch diggers than programmers. If you can afford to educate people to the point where they have the choice to do something beyond digging ditches, the value of ditch digging labor rises to more accurately reflect how difficult the work is.

Hard labor is only worth $10 an hour when a society is unable to provide enough opportunity.

Edit: What I'm trying to say is that laborers will benefit from the higher paying jobs, but only if a society can provide enough educational opportunity that it will shrink the number of people who have to do the labor.

Social mobility is the key.
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The way I see it you came out about the same, both getting things done in under five minutes. Excel guy could have dragged from A1 to J1000 if he cared about page count.
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I own a website for rental applications. I've been in PR2 for my target keywords for a year or so now.

I recently hired a SEO consultant to try to get my into PR1. And BAM! My site is suddenly PR12, my visitor rate has plummeted, and even my Adword ads seem to get pushed to the bottom.

I wanted to know if the HN community has any experience with this. I've done a bunch of research and gotten mixed opinions. Would appreciate some feedback.
Hey Guys, when is the Mac version coming out. I don't have a windows machine.
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Is this really true? seems like the early and late stage guys are doing pretty well raising funds.
- Summit closed 2 funds with a combined 3.2bn in January
- NEA is raising 2.5bn
- AH raised 1.5bn
- General Catalyst is raising around $500m
- Accel has raised Big Data and India funds in the last year

Also from that article: "The dollars raised this year may equal or surpass 2011 levels – but the number of funds managing that capital will almost certainly be less. "

It may be true a lot of follow-on Sand Hill Series B and C guys are struggling, but a lot of them haven't generated returns in forever and should have been out of business years ago. Won't they just get replaced?

And don't founders tend to get the upper hand when capital is easiest to come by and optimism is at its highest?
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You don't necessarily need legal advice. It's more a matter of being aware of it. Here is what Brian wrote in a comment on the blog: "the point of the article is to highlight the issue so that you are aware of it in case it is applicable to you and that in and of itself allows you to make more informed decisions and plans (...) The reality is that a relatively short conversation up front with someone with experience in the area (whether they are a lawyer or not) can go a long way in mitigating risks in this area."
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How have I screwed anyone out of any money?

I don't see any difference between downloading then deleting music and asking to listen to something in a record shop.
The only recruiting mail I get aggressively is from startups and Google. That's it. I hear all the time that there is a significant talent shortage, but part of me wonders whether that's a combination of people that don't want to work at Google for whatever reason and developers with families that don't want to bet on a startup.

My colleagues in big iron, however, are much choosier about who they hire.
Shorter: learn, think, code, debug, solve, share, enjoy.
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> He earned his billions while he was at Harvard

IMHO the deferred argument is bogus, it's not like he could have pocketed then but decided not to. Whatever valuation Facebook will get tomorrow is, well, tomorrow's valuation.

Was attending Harvard free? Don't think so

> The income wasn't realized until later, because that's how startups work.

so would a founder get some money back if his startup bombed and he lost his money? Or is all the downside on him while the upside must be shared?
A much better article than I would expect, really.

Coolest technology I had never heard of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-reconfiguring_modular_robo...
is there any replacement for mongodb?
Increases in taxes tends to shift more and more activity into tax avoidance schemes rather that economically productive ones. See Parkinson's book "The Law and the Profits" for the classic treatment of this.
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