skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sources for health care and housing statistics are already listed above and I do not make a single ad-hominem attack on the authors. If you can point out where exactly you think I am misrepresenting their argument I will be happy to provide page references so they can disagree with you themselves.

To cite just one example as evidence that you need to read AEI "research" more carefully, you can find the authors mention the mid-1980s inclusion of mobile homes and trailer parks as new forms of "housing consumption" in the first paragraph on page 15. I give them some credit for mentioning this, since it should be obvious even to the uninformed that aggregate measures of "housing consumption" are going to go up when you find new forms of housing to count half-way through your survey.

As far as the reputation of the AEI goes, it stopped having any when it fired David Frum for being too far left [1]. Mainstream economists find the institute laughable [2], and even conservative economists like Bruce Bartlett mock its employees as "scholars" (his quotes) [3]. Poor quality ideological broadsides like the one cited above are the norm rather than the exception. Charles Murray's "The Bell Curve" is broadly derided for racism, while Kevin Hassett and James Glassman are ridiculed in the mainstream media for backing pump-and-dump schemes like "Dow 36,000" and for seeming to be unaware of such basic economic concepts as discounted cash flow.

[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03...
[2] http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2011/10/the-uncertainty-argume...
[3] http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1601/gro...
Samsung Apple Verdict reached
It was a journey!

I spent some time doing a PaaS startup (djangy) and then spent some time at a social gaming analytics startup (kontagent).

Now I'm working full time on Bloc: http://bloc.io and things are going really well.
Used a trackpoint for a long time. Big glass touchpad is way more efficient. You move your fingers more, but because you have more control over the larger range of movement than you do over the smaller range of movement, you can jack up the tracking speed a lot higher.
That's a good point, but I think you're actually conflating two independent factors.

All else being equal, I wouldn't like working so that I can be shut down by another company at their whim. Nobody would.

But at the same time, I can get "customers" from App Store sales. Whether you develop your sales into customers is entirely independent of whether your work is hosted (and veto-able) by someone else.

For example, I bought an app on the App Store, and found a nasty bug in it, and so I sent an email to them. I got a personalized response, and started a dialog with the programmer. I've reported many issues and requested some features, was given a pre-release beta to test, and after a few weeks, the next release had my bug fixed. A "sharecropper" under Apple, perhaps, but earned my trust, and I'll buy from them again if I have the chance.

On the other hand, I have in the past bought software in a cardboard box from a store. The publisher wasn't under anybody's thumb, and I'm sure they were happy about this fact. But it was nearly impossible to give any feedback to them, and when I did, I never saw any of it included in any future release. Owned their own business, but made a one-time sale and definitely not a repeat customer.
"Jury finds on bounce back patent that Samsung infringed Apple on all the devices in play, smartphones and tabs"

"On the "pinch and zoom" patent, jury also finds Samsung infringed Apple patents on the menu of smartphones and tablets..with just a few exceptions."

"On tap and zoom, jury finds infringement for tap and zoom feature on most of the smartphones and tablets, although no on a few, such as Nexus S 4G...split this one up by various devices, but largely in favor of Apple"
I was never a math kingpin, but my last startup was stock market/trading related so I got to brush shoulders with some brilliant analysts.

Their advice to me is "anytime you think you want to do a simple average, you'd be better served by displaying a histogram of averages".

I think this completely applies here too since it would help you quickly see if (a) the bulk of your customers are have a low repeat price and the average is buoyed up by a few large purchases or (b) one customer orders a whole bunch of tiny items at a low price dragging the averages down.
But this is already evernote nothing new??
Sorry, I don't see any hate in there. Just criticism, which, while not too original, should be taken seriously.

And I don't think they don't "get" it. They get it alright, and still think there's something a little wrong with it. It's just a different perspective, and quite a valid one. (Though I wouldn't call investing in people, "investing in nothing". The MacArthur Genius Grant is a nice comparison.)
Jury: Samsung infringed Apple's software patents
Indiegogo campaign: http://www.indiegogo.com/helios (RE-EDIT: IndieGoGo takes 9% fee but PayPal is known for account freezing, the choice is up to you)
We use Zendesk at Room 77. Allows us to keep track of what issues our customers and users are facing, categorize them, and systematically deal with them. We also have some remote support members and having a centralized tools helps keep mix-ups to a minimum.
Live Coverage of Apple/Samsung Verdict
I don't doubt that :-)

But I wonder how long this will be the case. Anecdotally I'm seeing more people choose Android (or at least Samsung Android phones) - with a bigger user base, how long before the subset of early adopters/higher spenders is as big or bigger than those with an iPhone?
Could you be more condescending?

More seriously, explain to me how making the wave travel backwards isn't the same as changing the sign of t. Wave movement is linearly based on t.
what is the font?
Live coverage on The Verge: http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/
If, in 5 years time, 50% of the internet looked like default bootstrap.....this would not be a bad thing. At all.
As an author, it's depressing to see empty books -- stickers and all -- selling for twice as much as full ones.
So distribute it some other way. If it's a great app and lots of people have a use for it, they will find a way to get it. You have the greatest distribution channel known to man at your disposal which NO ONE, not even the mighty Apple, truly controls: the internet.

Apple is just one company... which happens to spend an inordinate amount of money on marketing and an incredible amount of effort trying to control people through the lure of nice form factor and a graphical interface.

But there's more to computing than form factor and GUI. Lots more.
Especially considering YC's public stated strong position against SOPA supporters and that they would not be welcome to demo days etc, this surprises me that these values haven't flowed through to this round especially since the round was not far from the whole SOPA debacle.
Looks like Apple have crushed Samsung.
The downvotes (I didn't even know you could downvote here!) are likely disagreeing with the idea of validating as a talisman. "It validates! Yay, it must work!". As HTML5 formalises much of what already exists, it's hard to move to HTML5 and break things - HTML5 isn't just video, audio, canvas etc, it's also a more sane doctype, ability to omit attributes that only ever have one value (type on script elements for instance), ability to nest things inside anchors etc.

Also, as we all know by now, XHTML doesn't make any sense with the browsers that exist – particularly as it's rarely actually valid XML, and even rarer, sent with the right MIME.

In short, XHTML doesn't exist in any practical sense and HTML5 subsumes HTML4 + modifying the stupid bits to fit with what browsers actually do. There isn't really any logical reason to not use HTML5 syntax, though of course, using the new features can be problematic.

I understand that your logic for validating is likely your companies decision and not your own view, and I'm not attacking your values or opinions in anyway.
Supposedly discovered extinct fish - SPIEGEL ONLINE: coelacanth
Depends on how much you're used to (http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press_releases/2004/09_29_04....): Typically, onset of symptoms occurred 12 to 24 hours after stopping caffeine, with peak intensity between one and two days, and for a duration of two to nine days.

Anecdotally, I know someone who was on three pots a day, and he had a miserable month when he quit cold-turkey. Some of that was withdrawal, but some of that was also probably him having to adjust to a wake-sleep cycle without the aid of stimulants.
Facebook started at $38. It is at $19.41 right now, If I was a Facebook shareholder I would be very worried that half my investment is gone, and that said FB engineers and early inverters had just cashed out after the latest lockup expired. It is a publicly traded company now, and like any CEO Zuck's job is to make money.
It´s a interesting problem though... I still find it mind boggling that they pulled of that landing sequence... It´s so much more complex than the airbag idea of the last landing.
++ if you can, you should work with Jon. He's great to work with and you'll learn a lot.
I find issues and the wiki to be the
weak points of github.

What's wrong with GitHub's wikis?

I recently evaluated wiki software that I could use with one of the teams I'm on, and I was surprised when I ended up choosing GitHub's wikis. I love that their wikis support Org Mode's syntax. The only other solution I could find that supports Git and Org Mode's syntax is Gitit, which was my second choice.

I was fully prepared to use Markdown, Textile, or some other lightweight markup language that I consider inferior to Org Mode's syntax, but no wiki solution was good enough to warrant that compromise.
Vaccines also decay in efficacy. When was your last pertussis booster?
I find this story pretty hard to believe. It might, I guess it might be true, but it seems a bit fanciful. For sure, even if only partly, this person clearly has major problems with balancing things. But the Kung Fu master part seems a incredulous to me. In the story, we go straight from being one of the greatest monks the Wu Tang Clan has ever seen to ... doing drywall odd jobs for money to buy weed and beer ... seems like something is missing there. Then there's the bit of moving out into the wilderness, resuming this big regime of training. I just don't know about that.

IANAP (psychologist), but I would say probably this person has a big problem with video games, but more specifically impulses and I would venture to guess possibly a hard time distinguishing reality from fantasy. Probably, the inability to distinguish reality from fantasy is one of the bigger problems here and then addiction. It's good that this person seems to want help, get out of the hole. I think it will definitely take professional help; there's more going on here than just playing Starcraft 2 too much.
Apple Wins Patent Ruling As Jury Finds Samsung Infringes
A company of companies? Sounds reasonable, but I think our legal/tax system isn't really designed for that so the accounting/legal issues could get hairy.

Typical startups contract out most of the stuff you mentioned. Which amounts to the same thing, although it's not as efficient as having a trusted competent department in-house.

Essentially incubators and VC's are a way to lower the risk for startups. You trade equity in return for capital/guidance/connections/and a better chance of a soft-landing if you fail.
Should be a nice boost for Apple's stock price Monday.
The article shows a fundamental misunderstanding how Facebook filtering works. If Facebook didn't have any kind of filtering on page updates then they'd flood out friend updates which are much more important.

The likelihood that a particular fanpage update will get filtered out for an individual user is dependent on how the user has interacted with the fanpage in the past. If a user frequently clicks through/comments/etc on updates from a fanpage then updates from that fanpage are far less likely to get filtered out.

The whole sponsored stories thing was introduced a long time after Facebook had started doing filtering.

Saying that the filtering is a conspiracy to help Facebook make money may well be libelous.
To avoid the politics: "it makes just as much sense as Bayesian inference".
Or just "pirate" them yourself with some colored sticker paper.
I've found there is an interesting corollary to this: a good default configuration is more likely to make your product* successful than a poor default configuration with a lot of customization options.

I'm not saying that products shouldn't strive to be as customizable as possible, just that providing the product with a set of sensible defaults will go a long way in adoption.

* I use product loosely: anything from text-editors, phones, cars, subway sandwiches.
Wow, crazy result. I feel [to be updated with an edit later]!
Jury Finds Samsung Violated Apple Patents
Samsung infringed on Apple design patents, jury rules
PyCon 2013 Talks I Would Like To See
I think IRC does this type of mass node interconnection quite well.
This was on /r/programming and now it's here - I'm sorry, but I don't really understand what this is all about. 600 lines doesn't seem ultra-small to me. And Lisp - well sure, not too common a language for games, but it's not as if this was written in a purely functional style or something. In fact, it looks like pretty standard imperative programming to me - it wouldn't look much different in C.

Am I missing something here?
Among my biggest gripes about RVM (the Ruby enVironment Manager): that's the install method.

https://rvm.io/rvm/install/

But SRSLY?!!!!!!!

How does RVM work? By throwing a shit-ton of hooks into your shell environment.

That shit right there made me put the brakes on and try to grok the hell out of what the tool did right there.

Upshot: it's useful and seems to do what it promises. Still bugs the crap out of me though.

The animated ASCII stuff? "nobody" account on a VM.
I'm wondering if this is a side effect of too many frameworks where developers have gotten so lazy, design is a total afterthought.

I actually thought the end result of this framework would've been the complete opposite of what's happening. Since developers have more time and resources, they'd take the time to experiment and put some real effort into a design.
To be fair, Mandreel has done a lot of work with Google, and you can see practically all their games are on the Chrome Web Store and made for it. So unsurprisingly Google has optimized for them. There is nothing wrong about that, of course, just pointing out that they are not "a third party with no ties to anyone".

Second, while Emscripten is a Mozilla project, you can see that it works with Chrome as well: Links to bugs filed by an Emscripten dev (me) appear in that blogpost, in fact - those bugs are filed to help Chrome be faster, and nice progress has been accomplished, one of those bugs was just closed in fact (it's cool stuff, read it for more info - Chrome was much slower than Firefox on that benchmark, and now it's faster on it).

Finally, the point of the blogpost is that all benchmarks need to be treated skeptically - there is no such thing as a perfectly unbiased benchmark. So we need to just be aware of that, and not consider any specific benchmark to be "the" benchmark of the modern web. That's all.
551 words spilled on a simple question, with a simple, obvious answer: E-mail.

* Immediacy: if a post has been made by someone I follow, I can see it in my timeline right away (or close enough that I don’t notice the difference). "E-mail"

* Chronology: posts always appear in order by time posted. "E-mail". Chronology as the author imagines it doesn't even occur for Twitter, likely their machines' timestamps are fuzzy +/- perhaps up to a minute or more.

* Monotonicity: timelines grow only from the top; older posts are never retroactively inserted. So have your client mark a message by the time it's received, provide a second sort order. Ugh. "E-mail"

There are genuine technical challenges to implementing a robust many-many federated messaging system, this post mentions none of them.
Looks like Apple won this one
By its name, I assumed it was heroku for Go code. Probably unfortunate, with Golang gaining steam.
I've been following the live blogging from the San Jose Mercury News kindly posted by another HN participant:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4429940

Direct link to the live blogging is

http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_21356424/live-blog-verdict-a...

"Jury finds on bounce back patent that Samsung infringed Apple on all the devices in play, smartphones and tabs"

"On the "pinch and zoom" patent, jury also finds Samsung infringed Apple patents on the menu of smartphones and tablets..with just a few exceptions."

"On tap and zoom, jury finds infringement for tap and zoom feature on most of the smartphones and tablets, although no on a few, such as Nexus S 4G...split this one up by various devices, but largely in favor of Apple"

"Jury also finds for Apple on charge Samsung "knew or should have known" it was inducing its telecommunications and electronics divisions to infringe"

"Apple blitzing Samsung so far, jury now finds infringed design of iPhone contours, etc."

"Some products of Samsung being spared the gallows, but not many so far"

"Jury finds Samsung infringed Apple graphical interface on iPhone....so much for those differences Samsung argued for"
Samsung Found in Violation of Apple Patents
Jury returns verdict in Apple v. Samsung
Sadly, I think another locale is off the table too. Would be better than the US, but still "not in Canada". Thanks though - hopefully you're right and we see some developments soon.
I'm primarily looking for design and coding skills. Over the next year I'm going to be evolving beatlab to allow for the composition of full length production quality songs. I'd also like to involve more artists and producers along the way.

Many hit hip-hop and electronica songs could have been composed on something similar to beatlab. The amount of additional complexity required is minimal.

For example, one project is to create another area of the site for laying down vocals over a beat. The grid is a poor metaphor for these kinds of things. The vocals will by recorded separately, and then independently synced up with any other grid on the site.

Another project is to allow for the arrangement of grids into a basic song structure. For example, there should be the intro grid, the chorus grid, etc..
SSI disability payments should not count against Medicare income limits.

The United States fucking sucks sometimes.
Thanks! That's very kind.
So far the Apple and Samsung updates are just making me angry. I can't believe that you can patent pinch and zoom and double tap to zoom.

All this story is telling me is just how much the system needs to be reformed.
PowerColor announces a triple-slot Radeon HD 7990: Devil13
I think you answered your own question. Building iOS only is only half the effort as well. Half the effort for the more valuable half of the market gives disproportionate gains.
> Is it racism only when you consider the group as a whole? Can't one be racist when talking about individuals?

The claim was that racism explains why birthers think that Obama was born in Indonesia.

Racism supposedly means "ascribing attributes to individual/group based on their skin color/ethnicity".

How are you defining racism such that Birthers believe that Obama was born in Indonesia because of racism/their beliefs about Black people but don't believe that other Black people were born in Indonesia?

In terms of actual usage, "racism" is basically code for "I'm a good person, we disagree, therefore you're a bad person".
I'm actually surprised of such a lopsided victory. I've been following this pretty close and felt like Apple has really overstepped their bounds.

Of course it won't matter. Samsung will keep this going for a while on appeal until they win and then Apple will appeal. I don't see a clear victory for either company for a long, long, time.
... and introduces the problems of scalability and reliability.

(Not that those problems aren't solvable with PubSub, but it does add a lot of complexity.)
Why don't you post some reasons why you think that might happen?

For me as it stands I wouldn't spend the time to investigate further than a quick glance round the website as it isn't clear exactly what the core offer is, supported languages, database offered etc. It is implied rather than actually stated anywhere that it is capable of serving anything other than static sites albeit with a smart deployment system.
Nobody using Google App Engine? Honest question.
Let me know if/when you'll be looking for a designer, this looks like something I'd be interested in contributing to.
I suppose that's better. Great Lispers are statistically unlikely to be using Vim, but the number of people using Vim is so large that merely using Vim isn't damning evidence that code is poorly written.
I still question the lack of healthcare in a developed nation.
Evernote is a fantastic app and not hard to use or overly complicated.

I agree with you on the Skitch integration, the startup screen has driven me bonkers.

My guess is that they'll sort it out, the last release seemed a little better.
From: http://live.theverge.com/apple-samsung-verdict-live/

"No across the board. Not a single [patent] proven invalid by Samsung."

that's big.

edit: "Damages from Apple to Samsung: zero." (edit2: oops, dumb typo)
Ask HN: is there any place where I can submit my ideas?
I have some ideas for startups and I would like to test them. So, the other day I was thinking: is there any place where I can submit questionnaires, landing pages, etc?
PS: I know that HN is a good place to do it, but the links I submit get mixed with world news and other stuff. I'm talking about a place exclusively for this purpose.
I sympathize; but on the other hand, many of us value our own thoughts very highly too.
So, who's next? Gestures seems pretty common on most mobile devices, and I'm guessing this opens the door for Apple to be able to sue them all, right?
The appeal is guaranteed to be requested from Samsung, and will likely be granted due to the behavior of the judge.

This one is going to go well into extra innings. The question is whether there will be a timely injunction of Apple's likely attempt to cut off Samsing's sales of infringing products in the US.