skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This explains well why it might be of interest in an area where some seemingly basic jobs are all that is left from the scale-back of traditional industries. Right or wrong as the experiment will tell us, this seems to have some explanatory power. About why it might be a good idea for an increasingly large segment of folks that would otherwise be dis-advantaged by skyrocketing costs of higher ed.
Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPhone 5 and Music Event
Kimmel fools people into believing iPhone 4S is iPhone 5
Change it to two days. When do you squeeze in your retrospective? Your presentation of the deliverable to stakholders? Negotiating next sprint commitments? Researching before you do estimation?
Google threatens Acer if they use a new OS
The way I think about it is this:

If there is a limited supply of a good that is highly desired by the richest in society, and if price is used as an indicator of quality for that good, then it is the connection between the cost and the consumer that drives prices upwards.

For things like speedboats and handcrafted watches and personal spaceships, this is all cool, and I don't think that randomly insanely rich people buying toys like this does much harm really on the scale of things and probably does a lot of good if anything. Power tends to follow a power law, no matter what kind of politics you try and squidge in the middle.

However, if it is then thought to cause injury to the society in general for certain goods (such as education and health services, for example) to be priced above people's general means, then the state can lower the cost of that good by regulation or by direct competition by the state. The purchasing power and drug research of the UK's NHS being a good example.

And I don't think there is any massive contradiction in being lassie-faire capitalist with most stuff and socialist with specific areas. It seems to be how places like Finland get along mostly, and they seem to be doing ok.

[edit] Just thought, private spaceships shouldn't be on that list as they follow a different set of economics, as the rich people who want them are directly funding their construction rather than purchasing a consumer good. Posh watches and big speedboats follow this rule though.
"The Promise was created against a backdrop of recent economic thought that considers investment in education better than nearly every other kind of developmental effort when it comes to promoting economic growth."

That's the kind of thinking that turned east Asia from a place of wretched poverty to a place of wealth in my lifetime.
Michigan State isn't half bad. The cynic in me finds it strange to see a university with national reputation in the list.
To be clear, I'm not necessarily backing his argument. Just clarifying it.
Only now as an adult, having grown up in southwest Michigan, do I appreciate how unusual the region is.

The amount of culture and philanthropy in area is very high considering the population. In Kalamazoo there's the Kalamazoo Area Math and Science Center (thank you Upjohn family), the Gilmore Keyboard Festival (thank you Gilmore family), the philanthropic work of the Stryker family, ... the list goes on and on.

About an hour north of Kalamazoo is Grand Rapids, another major Michigan metro area, which is also defined by philanthropy: Art Prize (thank you DeVos family) and the Fredrick Meijer sculpture park (thank you Meijer family), just to name a few.

Are all towns in the United States like this?
HTML 5 input fields support it now (if you want to do it for the user input).
It just means that software engineering is difficult even with many testers.
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Did you just equate 5% (close to a standard annuity rate) with 0.4% (close statistical noise)?
I am not a lawyer so my obviously it depends on what you are like. If you are someone who can get shit done, have enough money to last a year on your own, and don't have a wife or kids there's not much stopping you.

I just didn't think it was worth waiting for a greencard. I was on an H1B for a year, and realized I'd have to wait 5 more years for a greencard.

Now I look back and just think it was a mental road block (a big one albeit it).
Right but, as mentioned, inline styling is mixing markup and styles so it's best avoided (plus you're still relying on CSS to hide the content).

Regarding the `hidden` attribute, there is no support for it in IE (at least up to and including 9).
Re downvotes -- using periods like that for emphasis (in the first line of your post) is like typing your message in all caps for emphasis. It makes your argument harder to read, but it doesn't make it more persuasive. And it makes people not really want to talk with you -- you're signaling that you're not going to engage them intellectually, you're just going to get offended and shout at them if they disagree with you.
Do you think Manoj's first million went to charity, or invested in his businesses and self?
I don't think Glass (or a similar product) will ever be used for intensive tasks, but I think you're underestimating what you can do with gps, wifi, gyroscopes, accelerometers, 2D touch surface and voice.

Writing instant messages? I already find the voice transcription on Jellybean to be faster and easier than a touchpad. Checking when the trains go? Ideally, Glass tells you before you even need it (a la Google Now), but that can also be a voice query. Browsing the web? I don't think that's the intended use case, but touchpad + detecting head position / movement for navigation should make this pretty easy.

I won't code on Glass, but I look forward to never fumbling to get my phone out of my pocket, turning it on, and launching the camera app. That and simple information retrieval queries "Glass, define 'dionysian'"; "Glass, when will Jenny's flight get in?"; "Glass, what's the surface area of the Sun?" will by themselves make glass worthwhile for me.
it appears that this is self-promotion, but that's a nice-looking tool. it does look a little disruptive to my workflow (I suggest doing a screencast demonstrating some real world scenarios like periodically checking ical or gmail). and also, unique, not widely used (and not widely audited) security software seems like taking a pretty big risk. not really sure what you can do about that, since it's kind of a chicken and egg problem. but open sourcing it would help get the ball rolling.
The Human Future: A Problem in Design
This one page succinctly conveys what any entrepreneur should think when building a startup be at starting phase or fundraising phase.

Btw, Sequoia has one of the best "about us" page (http://www.sequoiacap.com/about). It's focused on their customers (showing entrepreneur's pictures in early days and how they serve entrepreneurs) rather than glorifying their ninja investing skills.
All Microsoft Employees To Get New Surface Tablets, Windows 8 Phones and PCs
Fixing some of the bugs you find internally doesn't mean you need to fix all of the bugs you find internally.
This is one of those steps needed toward figuring out how to make really cool materials that are possible in theory but nobody knows the recipe. Imagine being able to stop at each step of a chemical transformation process, image the intermediate product to give guidance on what you needed to do next to achieve the molecule or polymer you wanted to end up with. Just amazing stuff to me.
No one who bought a 4S since launch day is eligible for an upgrade on most plans at this point. They are not the target market. It's the 3GS/4 owners. They are in for a huge upgrade going to the iPhone 5.
True, for the most part, but not a complete story.

One thing that MS never does is eat its own pricing or licensing dog food, which is a big part of the downside of using MS products. For example, an individual developer at MS never thinks for a second about the cost/benefit of various different OSes or servers, if they feel like installing Windows Server 2008 r2 data center edition with SQL Server on their desktop (which is around $10k in total cost to some schlub outside the company) or on an old machine they've converted into a server, they do so.

This can create a fairly substantial difference between the experience within MS and without. Also, there are tons of internal tools used throughout the development process which don't exist outside of MS or for which MS doesn't consider using the equivalent 3rd party tool which result in very different experiences. A lot of times this is justified as servicing workflows which are only relevant at MS's scale but often times this is a pretty bogus rationalization.
For what it's worth, the research I'm aware of on whether users actually notice or care about mixed content warnings suggests that they generally neither notice nor care: http://www.usablesecurity.org/emperor/.
>>What are the obstacles to the transition? How can they be mitigated or avoided? What can we, as engineers and entrepreneurs, do to make it happen faster and smoother?

Few things i can think of are:

1.Focus on solving the problem of basic living as cheaply as possible, to enable moving to different system a political and practical reality and create some sort of stability for a world in transition.

One idea: focus on solving problem for the poor and the third world. They are a good market for cheap products.

2.If we learn from the history of the of the industrial revolution, achieving a good change will be very politically dependent. We cannot assume blind "technological optimism". So one way is to think how do we create a political change.

One idea: focus on technologies that automate lawyers out of a job. The lawyers will create political pressure.

3.I think that many engineers/entrepreneurs lack exposure to problems and knowledge needed to create the transition, so instead they're thinking on facebook apps.

Ideas:Build a database of real problems and projects for engineers/entrepreneurs to work on,find some way to break big problems into small one, and share knowledge or built communities for this.

4.One big obstacle to the transition is existing power structures. Hacking regulatory barriers that prevent disruptive innovation seems a solution here.
My guess is that he means "intuitive" in the sense that if you can't find a job that already exists, your only alternatives are either creating a new one for yourself or being out of work (and suffering economic deprivation) indefinitely.

In reality, though, this is not as intuitive a leap for people to make as he thinks. If there's no jobs available at existing companies today, that doesn't mean that there won't be some tomorrow; and starting a new business involves navigating a big thicket of complicated issues most people have no experience dealing with, like forms of legal organization, raising capital, state and local regulatory compliance, taxes and accounting, insurance, etc.

Social factors are also important: if everyone around you makes a living as an employee, the idea that you can start your own business might never even really occur to you, because you have no role models for that kind of behavior. If you go ahead and do it anyway, you risk looking like the odd man out in your social group -- constantly having to explain your decision to people who don't really get it. And of course there's the non-trivial risk of failure, which potentially exposes you to scorn ("I told you opening that shop was a dumb idea, but you wouldn't listen," says your mother-in-law).

Given the choice between checking the job listings again tomorrow and taking on a radical change in lifestyle that requires learning a whole bunch of new skills, it's understandable that just sticking to the job listings as long as they can is the more appealing choice for lots of people.
No no no! Unless you absolutely need your content encrypted, all this does is add unnecessary latency to your site for the SSL handshakes. If your site hosts zero external content, and all of your content is hosted from the same domain, this wouldn't be as big of an issue. However, most sites host content from 4-5 different domains, which means you're going to have 4-5 different SSL handshakes, thus resulting in a much slower page load.
At cdnjs, the homepage shows protocol relative URLs by default. We got the idea from Paul Irish: http://paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/
So your reply about the wp7 userbase size was irrelevant to the discussion.
Please stop spreading this "running out of heilium" nonsense. Natural gas contains plenty of helium, and making LNG produces helium as a byproduct. As soon as the US Government stops liquidating it's Cold War reserve of helium at super low prices, every LNG facility will compress the helium and sell it. Thanks to fracking, and a return of LNG production in the US, there will be plenty of helium for the foreseeable future.
Profit vs spend ratio, or revenue vs spend ratio? Very different things.
Interesting. I've been taking 2400mg since day 1 and have not experienced any physical side effects.
Apple products are not banned at MS, that's BS, in most parts of the company the most popular phone is the iPhone.
Yep hoping it will work eventually or they will talk about what is wrong. I have been also trying multibit and http://blockchain.info/ - they seem pretty good so far
Well, I see no reason not to use all of the above in conjunction with nootropics.
I am curious, would it not mean that paychecks will be slightly lower in the town given that expenditures are lower? Also meaning that families and individuals who choose to be without kids will have a poorer deal hence?
Sure, most people will ignore security warnings, but I still really, really don't want my site to ever pop up security warnings.
This looks like invaluable information for people looking to buy used cars that have secure websites but couldn't figure out how to consistently write https.

Thank you for finally acknowledging and serving this important niche.
I strongly prefer (and do) live a pretty extreme minimalist lifestyle. Thus the less I own, the better. For that reason, desktops, a warehouse full of super computers, etc... Is extremely unappealing.

That said, I love my setup now (Macbook Pro, iPad, iPhone). The one thing I would change off the top of my head though is I would definitely disagree with Apple's stance on merging the notebook and tablet together in a single physical device. I wouldn't mind if the back of my laptop cover was another screen that ran iOS in a widescreen iPad mode rather than having a glowing Apple logo. I don't necessarily need the OSes to be merged but it would be so awesome not to have to carry two devices and having the built-in data chip (the way iPad does) but with LTE would be nice.

Aside from that, I don't really think I would change much (for the time being).
This has it exactly backwards. Consider this simple (and very simplified) example.

The NPV of college is $100k. The marginal student can scrape together $10k to go to college. The marginal cost of a student is less than $10k for the college. How much will the college charge? $10k. What's the benefit to the student? $90k.

What if an $89.9k subsidized grant is available? Now the college can charge $99.9k. What's the benefit to the student? Still $90k.

Now lets say an $89.9k loan is made available. The college can still charge $99.9k. What's the benefit to the student? $.1k. This is actually happening (though it isn't quite so extreme). The existence of loans is allowing colleges to capture more of the value of college from student.

The real world is actually worse than this simplified example in a lot of ways. Many degrees aren't worth it (from a purely monetary perspective), and the result is probabilistic, but student loans can't be discharged in bankruptcy, and payment is up front (w.r.t. a person's career), so the student takes on the risk, but the college gets the reward regardless.
> I am perplexed by those who would argue against anyone who asks for a more than what Apple is giving

I am perplexed by people who criticize a great product because it is not the particular great product that they want. Other companies can and do make those products. Support the products that you like, rather than trying to tear down the ones that don't match your personal preferences.

> They will only want what advertising tells them to want.

Utter nonsense.
This sounds suspiciously like what one of my friends did about twelve years ago for our freshman engineering project. Granted I believe these mice were more like $50 back then. See the 21 Aug comment here as proof that I'm not hallucinating: http://news.lugnet.com/robotics/handyboard/?n=*8563,-100&...
Maybe I wasn't clear but Blackberry won most quarters for the first 2 years of iphone.

Also: the report was that GS3 "won" US sales in August not the quarter (which isn't over yet). Which may be true but the report looked like it was just counting carrier stores which doesn't necessarily mean they won overall. Whether the GS3 "wins" the quarter seems like a red herring given the iP5 will only have 2 weeks on sale this quarter.
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I apologize for that.

I think that Quora obviously is loved by many, otherwise it wouldn't have grown to the size it did.
But for every wonderful experience you have, I can point to others who've had a poor one. Can we agree that both of us could be right?
Uber Offers Rides in Vintage Cars Ahead of ‘Boardwalk Empire’ Premiere
I think I had this same problem with Mail.app. I "solved" it by creating a separate keychain that just locks on sleep, but doesn't timeout, and moving my Mail passwords into that keychain. Presumably the same thing would work for iCal.
I know a lot of people argue against mixing markup and styling. As one of those, and since you seem well informed, how do you feel about the various css frameworks like bootstrap where the class names are essentially style descriptions?
Seems almost certain that the crack was already there. Maybe it was a production defect from the factory, or maybe it was caused by a previous drop that did no obvious damage. Landing on the carpet didn't deliver much of a shock to the glass, but it was obviously enough.

It's similar to what might happen with a cracked car windshield. I don't think it's fair for you to blame HTC without knowing for sure if that crack was already there, and/or exactly what caused it.

Any phone company that sells a cellphone that breaks so easily when dropped, especially 16 inches onto carpet, should not be in the business of selling cellphones.

Obviously these phones don't normally break when dropped onto carpet from a moderate height, or their owners would all be screaming bloody murder. That crack was caused by either an unusual factory defect, shipping damage, or something else that happened before you dropped it onto the carpet.
I use Brunch.io to do this. It precompiles all my templates and adds them to my app.js file.
That'd be my guess.
Zuckerberg Comments at Disrupt 2012
Faster, more responsive, prettier.
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Earlier this year, The Economist dropped official Argentine statistics from its compilations for being unbelievable:

http://www.economist.com/node/21548242
I wonder whether people would be less skeptical of CoffeeScript if its syntax were a bit closer to Python's: more parens, but simpler and clearer. For instance, what are Perl-style backwards if statements doing in CoffeeScript? They make it impossible to tell what a statement does by looking at the beginning of it (e.g. in other languages, "foo = ..." is almost always semantically an assignment of foo, and always syntactically an assignment) and thus decrease readability, just to save a pair of parentheses.
The Android NDK tools are an unholy abomination. Have you worked with it?
Verizon, Sprint iPhone 5 Still Won’t Let You Browse and Talk
The editor produces vanilla html/css that can be transfered and hosted anywhere.

And I'm glad that you think its worth buying but we're not for sale.
Jimmy Kimmel's experiment on iPhone "5"
Er, "kinda."

The last time I had a close friend at microsoft (and so heard the scuttlebutt) was a year or so ago, and at least from that perspective, it sounded like everybody there had an iphone -- and used google to search for stuff...

In other words, having a product, and actually getting your employees to use it when it isn't strictly necessary (e.g., they are gonna use MS compilers to compile stuff because it's pretty much necessary), aren't the same thing.

[... and a significant amount of MS dev work was done on iphone projects (e.g. in bing)!]
Another very good source on pricing experiments: http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-kn...
Not to be too biased (I grew up and attended school in Michigan) but I fail to see this as a significant limitation. Interested in technology? Attend Michigan's top-ten engineering school. Decent student at a less than stellar highschool? Michigan State probably has something you're interested in. Want to be a teacher? Western has you covered.

I never felt needy for options while looking at universities in the state of Michigan.
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Great thanks. So cool to see what you have done since the days at AutomaticDuck.
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If you have eaten enough bacon; you are in large quantities, derived from bacon. I think a bacon number of ~0.25 is entirely possible.
I thought his discussion of the Linux Hater's Blog, http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=628 , was even better.

ADDED: Also the Linux Hater's Blog is still going if only intermittently, http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/
>> My understanding and interpretation of all the recorded human history I have read is that the desires for a better will never be sated. Going to a world in which there is no scarcity means arbitarily drawing a line under 'what is necessary' - any rational observer would say that line has long since passed in many societies - but people don't want to stop at that line. The only way to make that happen is to coerce people to stop at a level of particular of consumption, and that is something I want no part of.

Even if assumed to be true, this is only partially relevant. What matters relative to employment is to what extent people are required to deliver the goods & services people may want.

It is hardly impossible to imagine technological innovation progressing to the point at which it becomes both cheaper and more effective to disregard human labor as an essential component in the production of goods and delivery of services.

In other words, demand is irrelevant if it can be satisfied without, or with minimum, human labor on the supply side.
Dennis Ritchie's anti-forward was the best part.
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What you fail to notice is a term called law of diminishing utility. Which philosophically means the perceived gains/value/utility from anything over time tend to appear less and less.

People get bored. There was thread a while back on Reddit, about discussing free ice creams and chocolates at Google. Thread bought out a very interesting aspect of human life, some people complained about quality of some chocolates in the fridge. So here you have a people who are getting free food, chocolates, ice creams, massage centers, toys and what not for free. And yet after some time they continue to have complains.

People will always have something to complain about. Besides look at the communist set ups. They aimed to provide what you say. Yet all of it went in the drain. When you award things uniformly for non uniform efforts. The concept and specialty of distinction goes away. People don't feel compelled to try a little extra or go the extra mile because there are no special rewards for that.