skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a function of both inflation rate and your expected ROI. Using 3% inflation and 6% ROI you need to reinvest ~51.6% of your income to break even. (1-(ROI-((1/(1-inflation rate))-1)))/ ROI = 1-(.06-((1/(1-.03))-1))/.06 = ~51.6%
Edit: Ok there must be a simpler way to write that...

((1/(1-inflation))-1) / ROI = ((1/(1-.03))-1)/.06 = 51.6%

PS: Just keeping what left over when you subtract the inflation rate from your ROI is close and you don't actually know the inflation rate or your long term ROI most of the time.
Uhm, he kept the links on a "recommends" page. And when Chase pulled the referrals, he removed them from that page which "After stripping out all the Chase stuff, my credit cards page is looking a little bare these days".

What does it tell us about his impenetrable integrity when his recommendations are predicated on the recommended product paying him? Surely Chase can't keep him from recommending the card - that would indeed be a free speech issue.

And no, it's not a principled stand against Chase: "We’ll see if we can find a less fearful company (or Chase rep) to step back up to the plate eventually."
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Site seems to be really slow, here is the cached version: http://tinyurl.com/c94nnmy

Long url: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?hl=en&biw=1...
This is going to lead to a loss of confidence amongst many - investors, advertisers, partners - who thought that Twitter was finally past its initial scaling/teething issues. It's not like there is anyone that hasn't heard of Twitter at this point in time. So yes, yes there can be bad publicity once something reaches the scale of twitter.
I used these in a small mockup app a little while ago. I'm aware of their inappropriateness for representing data, but for adding quick color, pop and smartness to a prototype, they performed beautifully.
That would be because the shim is kicking in in Compatibility Mode. Looking at the CSS it seems everything is set up correctly for IE10, perhaps they haven't implemented it yet in the beta?
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> making a big show of "freedom of speech" feels a little disingenuous

Maybe not disingenuous (which implies some degree of pretense), but certainly inaccurate. People like to use the phrase "freedom of speech" because it has propaganda value in most Western cultures. To paraphrase one legal scholar, the first lawyer to yell "freedom of speech!" in a crowded courtroom wins.
Who cares if it's fair if that's what's used? Sounds like you're a bit hung up on how things should be rather than how things are.
the source

http://www.justice.gov/atr/cases/f261600/261602.htm
You can cross develop though

Either Native -> HTML5 with things like Mandreel (http://www.mandreel.com/)

or

HTML5 to Native with things like cocoon.js (http://ludei.com/tech/cocoonjs)

Even many "native" apps just embed the native browser as a widget. Development is often much faster that way and they can fall back to native APIs for those few features HTML5 doesn't give them access too
Those are both good ideas.
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Credit cards are amazing. I pay my balance in full every month and American Express pays me money. It's bloody fantastic.

Edit: Oh, and I forgot to mention that the law is on my side with charge backs and I'm not liable for fraud.
There is always something to learn.

At some point, a long, long time ago, people had to have made discoveries and learn from that without teachers or materials. The education we have come to take for granted didn't just appear out of thin air.

You might be reinventing the wheel, but it's still a great achievement. The lack of teachers and materials isn't going to stop anyone who wants to learn.
The concept of a society with a strong form of equality is, I think, an utopia, and AFAIK, no such society exists. Even if you look at primitive societies, there are better hunters, the tribe leader has more wives than the regular guy, the shaman is revered, etc.

One can say that's not what this discussion is about, i.e. it's the potential for equality, the right to be equal rather than the radical definition above, but then the discussion becomes muddled, how to measure inequality, economically (e.g. the Gini index), by asking people, etc. "Inequality" then becomes a very complicated word like "democracy" or "justice".

I think it's interesting to draw a comparison with democracy: "true" democracy, i.e. radical democracy, is likewise impossible to maintain. The closest form in Athens degenerated to tyranny many times. And probably Athens was the largest collection of people where such pure democracy is feasible, i.e. it cannot be scaled up to a whole country. Judging from the lack of other examples in human history, one can see that the order of things in Athens was not the natural state of society.

So, I maintain that pure forms "liberté, égalité, fraternité" are not practical and cannot be achieved.

Now, one can argue back, saying "Yeah, yeah, we know that, but surely you can rank countries on how much they have achieved these, e.g. surely no one would debate that the US is more democratic than Saudi Arabia." This, of course, is true, but (i) means that we should leave behind "a brotherhood of men, and no possession, too" crap behind and (ii) leads us back to the question of measuring inequality.
Absolutely, they are all massive corporations. They are beyond the scale anyone can reasonably expect a company to act in the interests of their customers.

I'm not saying Microsoft is evil - they are just a massive company, who like Apple is controlled by shareholders and therefor maximizes profit at the expense of everything around them.

I have no idea what is going on with Google. Android 3.0 and the unified privacy plans being closed source seems like a good example of how their benevolence may only be skin deep, but they have acted "better" than the others at some superficial level. They are still absurdly powerful and I would always be hesitant to give them money, because companies like all three can turn around and use that absurd influence to harm consumers.
this one doesn't work so well:

glue abusers suck at checkers
Really? because the article directly contradicts you. These people were totally capable of learning, and demonstrated a willingness to learn, but they were not educated.
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Perhaps it should also include a non-ligature way of displaying icons. In current accessibility practices, when you place a description after its image you are supposed to include an empty alt attribute.

So say you have social icons...

◈ Facebook

◈ Twitter

You are supposed to write

<img alt="" /> Facebook

<img alt="" /> Twitter

As to cue screen readers to not read out loud filename or the alt attribute.

In this case Symbolset works as the alt property of images, so you would do something like...

<span class="icon">Facebook</span> Facebook

<span class="icon">Twitter</span> Twitter

Which wouldn't be right.
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Haters gonna hate. Having used (and developed for) Palm, WM6, Symbian, Android and iOS over the years, I find WP7 to be the most joyful, intuitive OS I have ever used.

Have you used WP7 for any amount of time or just seen screenshots? If so, I'm genuinely interested in why you hate it so much. The "text seems to drift" is an excellent UI/Navigation feature, it combines the title of the page AND indicates which tab you are on, rather than having a little row of dots.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/twain.asp
In the US at least, men use one-upsmanship as part of friendly social interaction. Women are generally not exposed to light-hearted competition in the same way, so they feel more put down by it then the men really intend. You could see it as a socialization problem (women have little experience with friendly competition) or a communication problem (men don't realize that their actions seem overly aggressive to women).
So I just checked in IE9 and it works fine...

(using 9.0.8112.16421)
So true! First Data is the grandpa in the room. Their site doesnt render properly on Chrome even :(
Real education does not necessarily mean spending big bucks. There is plenty of evidence that simply throwing money at the problem doesn't really work. A better correlation is high parental involvement and a community which values education.

Also, pay alone does not determine if one is poor. It is not possible to avoid having people who are "relatively poor" as measured by absolute income. But it is possible to take better care of people and reduce real problems like malnutrition, even if you have phd's waiting tables because there are too many of them.
Here is the heart of the problem:

<blockquote>
Peter Cappelli: Well, the employers, if you look at what the hiring managers are saying and what they’re looking for, they’re not, for the most part, hiring people out of college anyway or out of high school. What they want is three to five years’ experience. So the shortages that they report, the difficulty hiring, are for people who have quite specific skills, and those skills are work-experience based.
</blockquote>

Workers without three to five years' experience will never get three to five years' experience. The only way for a young worker to be hired is through corruption, by knowing somebody or lying about their experience. The employers have designed a system to create the shortage that they complain about, and they perpetuate it because everybody's doing it that way.

In any workplace, the grunt workers should outnumber management. It is no different in software. For every software engineer there need to be testers, bug fixers, and doc writers. Yet in the want ads for programmers, it is the other way around. Senior this. Senior that.

The way to fix this situation is easy, but like anything else it will require time and effort. Next to the routine 3-5 year want ad, also post something like this:

Job title: Computer Programmer.
Requirements: can program a computer.
Compensation: $14/hr or DOE.

You will get plenty of applicants because the economy is that bad right now. Use interviews to determine the best fits for your company. Hire two or three for every Project Manager or Senior anything that you have. Give them raises if they are any good, treat them with respect, and they'll stick around. Three to five years later, you will not only have coders with three to five years of programming experience. The coders will have three to five years of domain knowledge of your company's operations. That might be just as valuable as their coding ability.
Spoken like a boss. Look up an awesome photographer, like Sam Abell from Natgeo. Until recently he used 2 olympus film cameras, and 2 fixed lenses. No zooms. Which btw cost around 150 bucks on ebay each.

Some dig into the "technical" details like it was a computer, forgetting It's about making an image that looks good and people like.

I'd recommend 1x.com instead for tutorials.
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Genetics is a red herring, but so are most discussions about "social" causes. Social is just the new genetic. More often than not, the discussion goes down the same slippery slope of blame-the-victim reasoning to rationalize the status quo.
Agreed. The fixed size live tiles differentiated WP7 from the others. Now they just look like android widgets, albeit with more consistent styling.
A topic very much like this one makes up a chapter in the wonderful book Godel, Escher, Bach http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach

Two characters are in a race: one to build an impervious record player, the other to design a record that - when played - sets up feedback in the record player sufficient to destroy it.

It's a stunningly simple intro to a fairly deep topic: NP completeness, input validation, etc.
Yeah- a lot of startups are born from people coming up with an idea to solve a common problem... or even just an idea for something that they think would be neat/amazing.

Plus, they essentially are a user by default of a product/service they wanted for themselves in the first place. It's a great way to bring passion to the masses...
Ask HN: Why the grammar and spelling pedants? Is it good for HN?
it? What kinds of mistakes should be corrected (at least factual errors, obviously)?

I value grammar and spelling, but is an HN comment thread the right place to teach it?
Not at all. It's a rhetorical quotation; I'm not responding to any one person. (I suppose that's part of the issue: it's rarely any one person that's behaving badly; it's the cumulative effect.)
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The point of his blog is to demonstrate how to make the realm of FU money easier to achieve. His major claim is that, since he owns his house and has chosen a relatively low-cost region to live in, his yearly expenses for his entire family are around $27,000. So agreed, for him $4k/month of free money would definitely qualify.
Some research on this and one possible solution: http://typicalprogrammer.com/?p=68
Why? If I'm able to get quality answers what advantage does racial/sex "diversity" in and of itself bring to the table. Should I feel extra good about getting a quality answer from a black female programmer over a white male one? If so why? It would seem to me that using diversity to assess community quality on a programming Q&A site is a poor measure given it has no bearing on programming ability. Unless of course one is purely interested in aesthetics.
Depends how you want to sort, or how accessible you want your data to be.

Easiest would be something like:

{user1-name:user1-object, user2-name:user2-object...}

You could use a list but look-up is O(1) in dictionaries compared to O(n) in lists.

And if you then want to sort by any value of the user-object, you just hand the relevant gets-method as sorting-key, e.g. sorted(dictionary, key=user.getAddress())
Yes, and AMEX is just creating money out of thin air in order to pay it to you? No, they just charge the merchant 5% of the transaction, one of the highest in the industry. Guess who raises their prices by 5% everywhere, before you pay by AMEX?

The real problem is that everyone pays this price, and it leads to price inflation even if you pay cash (yes, dealing with cash transactions has a price for the merchant as well, but that one's already built into their costs). The laws should be changed so that merchants are allowed to charge more for CC transactions. I don't understand why the government has allowed the CC industry to forbid that (seems to work for gas stations).
I don't like that they call it "sub-personalities". Our inner voices are just us, the thoughts of our personality and identity. I suppose sub-personality as a metaphor could make it easier for people to manage stray thoughts that distract us from what we want to do, but it just doesn't feel right calling them sub-personalities or discrete parts. I guess it's because I associate fragmented personalities/identities with psychiatric disorders, and I prefer the idea of one consciousness/identity controlling itself.
How do you define education? Something as simple as learning how to interact with people is something that anyone in the presence of other people (which is most people on the planet) can do. Maybe you can't learn computer science in rural Africa, but that's not really what I'm talking about.
The notion of portals and portlets has been around for at least 10 years. What you are describing sounds like that (unless you visually steal all of their design).

Be careful in the exact look and the terminology you use and you should be fine.

(I am not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah.)
That is indeed true, and I thought about putting in a note about that in my original comment, but... c'mon folks, I don't think there can be any serious doubt about the idea that some people are born stupid, and that stupid people are more likely to be poor. Can there? Is this a concept which people genuinely doubt?
It seems to me that with your stated criteria, the answer is either "probably not" or "only if you keep churning out new ones". I say that based on your proposed math: one time small payment in a small market. Unless you can get recurring income, increase the market size or keep making new niche apps, that scenario seriously limits the potential income.
> Arguably in Java only the native types (which aren't part of the Java standard library) really embody this

To be clear: "embody this" meant "Value Semantics", not the in-between space.
> How and when the government got hold of those tapes is still unclear; the prosecution is not commenting on the case

Didn't Wikileaks say they had some BofA documents/conversations that were maliciously "deleted" before they went public?
How do you vet for quality?
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Perhaps most amazing is many people's apparent assumption that banks would never engage in this kind of behavior.

It seems the most cynical predictions and explanations of large bank behavior are likely to be the ones closest to the truth.
Not all returns are someone else's consumption. If that were the case, there would be no industry.

You can invest in a business that makes things for businesses or things that are actually investments for consumers.

An education is not (usually) consumption for a consumer. Neither is a car that more than pays for itself with the time it saves. Using the same car to go traveling around the country instead of getting an education is more consumption than investment.

Our society has chosen to water down the natural incentives to make prudent investments. Saving money no longer pays meaningful interest. The government gives you large incentives to buy a much bigger house than you might otherwise buy or rent. That "extra" house is consumption.
Offtopic: What's the point of using tinyurl outside of twitter? I would understand if you had your own vanity shortener (it would be obnoxius, but at least it would make some kind of sense).
I am female and 47. You can check my profile to see how long I have been hanging out here. (And since it sounds like you mean you are looking for a date, no, I am not available in that regard.)
It makes all the difference in the world. If people are poor because that's the best they're genetically equipped to do, then there's not much we can do about it.

Look at pigeons. They eat out of garbage cans. They die within a few years. They get run over by cars rather a lot. But we don't really worry about this, because they're just fucking pigeons.
From Google:
dif·fi·cult/ˈdifiˌkəlt/
Adjective:
1. Needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand.
2. Characterized by or causing hardships or problems.

I don't see lack of spaceships causing hardship, so that's really more of a definition #1 type of thing. Society built spaceships in the 60's, contrast that against the effectiveness of a spam filtering system built with hardware, software, algorithms and statistical inference techniques available in the 1960's.

While I appreciate and admire the work put into into accomplishing space fight, the existence of manned spaceships really doesn't contribute much to my existence, whereas spam sucks away a bit of my life, every day.
It didn't cover content for me, but I think it's annoying anyway. Instead of using fixed positioning, which the browser will keep in place no matter where you scroll without any annoying jumps, he updates the position with Javascript just because he wants the sidebar to lineup with the top of content when you load the page and to stay near the top of the screen while you scroll.

It's stunning from how annoying it is, and lets not forget that Craigslist is also a design used by millions of people, so his assertions don't automatically mean he is a great designer, although I prefer the simple if cumbersome design of Craigslist to an annoying jumping sidebar.
.icon {
speak: none;
}
I don't agree that there should be some standard layout - it should be based entirely on the user's preference - so emacs, vi, or whatever you like should be possible. The flaw is that every app decides it's own keybindings, and ignores the preference the user has set for his system.

Rather than a standard, we need a better API abstraction for keybinding, where users can control their keybindings from a single point, and it'll affect all their apps at once. App developers shouldn't tie functionality to specific keys, but to some abstract keys which the user controls.

I use Dvorak layout, but I generally prefer the conventional key locations for common tasks. So for example, cua-mode in emacs, I expect undo/cut/copy/paste to be in the locations of z,x,c,v on qwerty, except they're ;qjk on dvorak. It's awkward to make each app support this configuration - particularly when they all require a different language to configure.

Also, when a user configures his layout, he should be able to specify whether individual applications can override those keybindings or not - apps should request key combinations rather than assume they're available.

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The personality types is an interesting thought, but I don't think it's really a big deal, because if you can't predict people, you just need to set a trend and make them predictable :p.

The editor wars are really blown out of proportion because of popularity or fashion rather than their technical merits. People are emotionally attached to their tools and aren't interested in the other anyway. I mean, who has the time to learn both emacs and vi enough to compare them objectively anyway? I've not used vi enough to really assess it's capabilities.

Maybe the personality type could give an indicator of a default setting for developers to put in. I'd be surprised if there's no research in this area, considering every desktop developer claims "we're building what users want after conducting usability tests." (I'd like to know who the audience for GNOME's testing was.)

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I do hope tiling features will make it into desktop systems. Bluetile is an interesting example for gnome integration, although completely broken for gnome3.

Another interesting app is Opera. Their tabs have been based on MDI since day one (mid 90s). It basically has it's own internal WM, which includes some tiling features. (Opera's initial tabs were really tiles before they became the tabs we all know now.)

I think the other desktop environments are a bit slow on the takeup with tiling, and it's perhaps come to a grinding halt with the focus on tablets and touch now. We probably need to start experimenting with introducing touch into our tiling WMs to support heterogeneous inputs rather than exclusively keyboard too.

Probably the biggest joy about tiling WMs is that they're not some fixed system we're forced into using by the trendsetters, but they're more like APIs for developing your own personalized WM in. Until we build some customization abilities that don't require modifying code though, they probably won't become too popular - only minor features leaking into other systems.
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We are about to launch and I already have hundreds of unread emails in my inbox because I've been so busy coding to get to them. These can be broken down roughly into the following categories:
- people trying to sell stuff
- potential BD partnerships
- random contact requests coming in from our website
- product discussions with the team
- various admin emails from our accelerator organizers
- a few mailing list automated emails

As you can see, most of these are not important enough to have to read!!
Ah, nice, didn't know about speak: none;
Was the native runtime multicore capable ? If so, going to Node is a huge step down.
Well dang it, what was the Excel challenge? Of course we all want to try it :)
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