skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The law of supply and demand states that if you raise the cost of something, you will get less of it.

Say you can produce a certain amount of widgets out of a given resource, but with research you can produce more widgets, and that you can reduce the time needed to do that research by hiring more people and equipment. Now you are in a situation where raising the cost to your customers can result in a larger availability of widgets.

And that's just with widgets. If you look at wages, raising the minimum wage has lots of possible effects, many of which can actually serve to reduce the unemployment rate over time. One of them is that if the minimum wage is a reasonable margin above subsistence, then people in employment find it easier to start small businesses, leaving a job vacant when they venture out on their own and then even employ people themselves.

Damning people who are willing to work, to subsistence level incomes, is not how you grow an economy.

And when you get past elementary, let us know.
They'll never tell you and it doesn't matter since they'll never give those addresses up.
>Peta-Watt-hours per day

Also known as 41.66 terawatts.
Oh please Nancy Pelosi didn't raise the minimum wage. It was the Fair Mimimum Wage act and passed with Bi-Partisan (80 Republican's in the house voted in its favor) support and include a tax break for small businesses in order to offset the costs.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Minimum_Wage_Act_of_2007
Have you ready the Red / Green / Blue mars trilogy? It might change your mind. Also, not that it's possible, but why would you want to increase martian gravity? 1/3G would be awesome for sport.
To be honest, that use case has rarely come up for me, if at all. I'd much rather have the confidence that I'll be able to make a call (something you have with Verizon, but not with AT&T).
Google Fiber Issues Public Challenge: Get Up To Speed
My God, people's cell phones are more powerful than that.
I think your parent referred to Houston's population only.
Go's compiler is said to be fast. Could you fake interpretation by continually recompiling everything?
Czech republic establishes prohibition on all alcohol over 20%
Well, with Sprint you don't even have 4G in the vast majority of areas. So it really depends on whether you want speed or uncapped service.
Unicodinator - A Unicode Navigator
I'm not an Apple user, so I might not fully understand how Apple's connectors work, but it seems to be a dick move from Apple that even though they are going to use a completely new connector, they still not going to adopt the microUSB standard.
Ruby’s EventMachine – Part 1 : Event-based Programming
But then actually implementing something useful is cryptic and obscure. I tried figuring out how to connect to a postgresql server following the spaghetti documentation of https://github.com/bmizerany/pq and http://golang.org/pkg/database/sql/ and have yet to find anything useful. Hacking around only leaves me with frustration. Searching around only leads me to unhelpful descriptions of what the GO command does in MSSQL Server.
Apple adds straitjacket mode to iOS
That is an excellent link. Thank you for sharing it.
That's because the storage provides a measurable benefit to the buyer. "Hey, I can 16GB for a subsidized $200, but if I spend 50% more money, I get 100% more storage".

Every computer manufacturer does this for both RAM and storage. Mostly because the take-rate for memory and storage upgrades are far higher than, say, CPU upgrades which provide less measurable benefit for a significantly higher cost to the OEM/system integrator.
> Basically you're using PE as a proxy for a measurement of attractiveness.

How about PE as a proxy for "incumbency?" That is to say, you're looking at companies who figured out a formula to "print money" then let themselves get complacent and fat, thereby becoming targets for PE. This would explain why they tend to be not so agile.

I just had an image of a cabal of attractive young women, somewhat resembling James Bond villainesses, but who are trained in business and economics, who seek out dalliances with PE firm executives in order to perform industrial espionage.
Thanks for the feedback. Right now a section on 3D scanning is possible, but it will most likely be included under the general News section. Same for copyright law.
Someone there couldn't math very well.

First you mark up 50%. Okay, a $100 cost mattress gets sold at $150 wholesale. Then the retailer marks it up 100%, to $300 total. That's 200% of the production cost, not 74%.

What they meant to say is "production cost represents only 26% of the final cost of a mattress" but totally flubbed it.
if flash wasn't dying already I would have asked if this could have been useful to enable flash games or videos on the ipad... but the answer would have probably been "no" anyway
As I said, edited..
Definitely a fair question; you could add email addresses from iPhone contacts, but then we'd have to deal with things like

-name fragmenting (e.g. in my phone, I have 'Dad', you have 'tommy', and someone else has 'tom from bowling'). Facebook provides a consistent ID matched with an email, a first name, and a last name.

-number fragmenting (one person has my work phone, one person has my cell, one person has my home -- we don't want these to be three separate accounts)

-usually, no pictures for any users (and again, fragmentation of pictures in rare instances when you do have a picture for a user).

Facebook is an easy way to quickly get first and last name, photo, and social graph -- there are certainly some limitations, but to make the experience as seamless as we could for the user, we thought building it on Facebook Connect initially made the most sense. That said, there are people who would rather just have a new account on chronos, so we're exploring the possibility of allowing people to create one with an email and pw.
I keep hearing about go. I am new-ish to programming. Only really getting started on my first project, which depends on pyparsing, which depends on other things. Is go something a novice should be attacking real-world problems with?
There are various historical examples of various online networks. The one I began with in 1992 was the Prodigy commercial online network (which I had actually tried out as early as 1989). My paradigmatic example of an online network that faded away is AOL, which is still in business. My prediction about Facebook, posted previously here on HN, is "Facebook will go the way of AOL, still being a factor in the industry years from now, but also serving as an example of a company that could never monetize up to the level of the hype surrounding it." I could be wrong, but that's my sense of where Facebook is in the market.
It's the client who has to live with the design. What you like is irrelevant. If you want it to be better, show them two versions. That's life as a designer...or a programmer:

"Do it both ways and see which works better."
-John Carmack

http://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/Carmack-on-creativity.htm...
The big difference between D and Go is that D is another kitchen sink language. It has almost all of C++'s features, and more! Conversely, Go has many fewer features than C++ or D, and many argue that this is Go's biggest selling point.
I think dying on mars can be accomplished in a reasonable timely manner. Living on mars however might be hard.
While I agree with you, please be careful - you're an extremely influencial member of the Haskell community. This post could come across as very smug, and is thus potentially damaging. I'm sure it wasn't your attention, but please - be careful.
On issues where there's a large contingent of passionate haters/supporters on either side, polarizing articles from either extreme drive page views. It's just business.

It gets old though. I've come to realize over the past few years that the stuff I spend my time reading on Hacker News does take it's toll in mental and emotional energy. Often a lot more than I realized. If there's anything I wish I could filter from my media intake, it would be both iPhone Naysayer articles and responses to iPhone Naysayer articles such as Jim's here.
> The vast majority of those at minimum wage are employed in the service economy, so they compete locally, not globally. Therefore a minimum wage increase affects a business and its competitors relatively evenly.

Not so fast.

McDonald's isn't competing just with Wendy's. It's also competing with me making a sandwich.

My cleaning service isn't just competing with other cleaning services. It's also competing with me saying "hmm, I can live with that", etc.

The local retail store isn't just competing with other retail stores, it's competing with Amazon....

> The business may be forced to raise its prices, but since its competitors are forced to do the same no competitive positioning is lost.

If I spend twice as much at McDonalds, I'm spending less money somewhere else. Or, I'm not investing it, or I'm not putting it in a bank where it gets loaned to someone else to invest/spend. (Cue the fractional reserve arguments about the multiplier on deposits.)

In other words, even if the minimum wage increase "works", it's a transfer from someone else. A tax, as it were, but an opaque one. (Yes, there are lots of evils in the world. It's unclear how that justifies creating more.)

> The nice thing about giving money to people making minimum wage is that they spend it immediately, putting it back into the economy right away.

If you really believe that the minimum wage has almost no negative effects, why not raise it to $100. Either they'll spend it right away or they'll save some and buy houses and cars. The economy will boom.

Either you believe your theory or you don't.
Why is "Silicon Valley Guru Blasts Y Combinator Hype" nofollowed?
Why is this link nofollowed in the homepage, while the rest is followed?
NAVER Line is also currently killing it in this space in Japan, Korea and other nearby places.. Their business model started as "free but sell extra stickers to send to your friends", but now they have critical mass it seems they're setting up some kind of social network.. But a piece at a time by making an app at a time. Their Photo sharing app is gaining ground, as is their "diary" (read: timeline) app.
Windows XP might have been available for a decade, but you have to consider that Vista flopped and Windows 7 only arrived around 3 years ago.

That means large numbers of organisations were still installing Windows XP as their standard desktop around 3 years ago, and possibly even more recently than that since they wouldn't necessarily have evaluated Windows 7 and set up to migrate to it from day 1.

Moreover, the days of upgrading hardware every 2-3 years are gone, at least in typical office environments that aren't really pushing the performance limits of a typical office PC any more.

In other words, for large organisations that keep relatively up-to-date, it's still entirely possible that they have a lot of WinXP machines still around today, even if their newer machines are on Windows 7 now.
>>"How much does it cost to build the machine that mills the case out of a block of aluminum?"

That costs Apple nothing, it costs the manufacture a set dollar amount, which it then recoups and then some by selling cases to apple for $x.xx. So technically, the cost for building the machine to mill aluminum is already accounted for in the bill of materials.
> Given Mars' weak gravitational field, extremely low atmospheric pressure, lack of breathable oxygen, deathly cold temperatures, and weak magnetic field (leading to high levels of radiation), he may well get his wish. Many others will likely get this wish against their will.

Who is sending folks to Mars against their will? More to the point, how do I provoke someone to do it to me?
Overall, the site looks very genuine. The layout is simple and the wording is very concise and informative.

I agree with runemadsen. Just stating that the service offers professional designs and layout is not good enough. Some samples of work need to be provided on the site to justify a $25/slide basic price.

Also, there are some minor grammatical mistakes on the site. Consider some revising.
The headline is a tad inaccurate considering "discussions" don't really take place on Stack Overflow. In fact, I'd say that's one of the main motivators for a change like this; A more structured Q/A instead of wading through mounds of discussions.
I really fail to see why 'tethering' should cost you anything, _especially_ if you're capped in bandwidth already. If you pay for x GB you should be able to use as much, using any device you like. Weird.
How? I would love to do it!
I spend 3 days and learned all features of Go. Haskell, I spend 3 month just to barely touch applicative functors and a bit monads. I am expecting another year if I need to truly fluent in haskell.
We launched the rewrite a few months ago, the site is working wonderfully :).
Yesterday's discussion on the matter: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513696
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics

The graphs there give you an idea. Just imagine them with 1700 inputs and many 1000s of interactions.
I was looking at this for video hosting costs - any chance the bandwidth slider could go a bit (well, a lot) higher?
It seems to me that it would be very much in Google's best interest dig some change out from under their sofa cushions and provide legal support for these developers. There should be no question that the patent will be knocked down, but knocking it down will take money, and it would behoove Google to let their developers know that when the patent trolls come a-knockin', they won't be left on their own to defend their use of basic API calls.
The Probability That You Are Dreaming Right Now? 1 in 10.
>start backing this up with action

Not sure if sarcastic...

Elon Musk, as in: the guy who's company just ran a private reapply mission to /the international space station/.
Doesn't work on my phone. I am used to seeing slider controls that don't support dragging on touchscreens, but these don't appear to support the fallback of tapping a point on the scale to move the slide to that point.
Shared-nothing is a design decision (and runtime/language limitation), due to the single-threaded nature of js. The workers can communicate with the master via message passing: http://nodejs.org/api/cluster.html#cluster_worker_send_messa...

The documentation has the primary goal of explaining how things work, not being the canonical style guide.

Take a similar example from the Go documentation:

const NCPU = 4 // number of CPU cores

func (v Vector) DoAll(u Vector) {
c := make(chan int, NCPU) // Buffering optional but sensible.
for i := 0; i < NCPU; i++ {
go v.DoSome(i*len(v)/NCPU, (i+1)*len(v)/NCPU, u, c)
}
// Drain the channel.
for i := 0; i < NCPU; i++ {
<-c // wait for one task to complete
}
// All done.
}
NYPD To Set Up Occupy Wall Street Checkpoints
I'm a "open source guy". Very picky to pay of Anything.

I use the mentioned app with my Lady every day because it works so well on her iPhone too. The easy of sending photoes is just pure awesome. Never failed (during one year). It works so well I don't hesitate a second to pay a dollar of it when it asks for it.

Ps. Drunk in a bar and a regular guy next me agrees who did not agree on punch of other stuff.
GitHub availability this week
Read again, he didn't say it was ugly. He just pointed out that it wasn't 1:1 because the Go code omitted the logging and comments. A valid criticism.
How Facebook sped up off-site clicks by hundreds of ms
Go is well suited for this too. Look at dozer at github.
Steve Keen has some non-traditional economic ideas that seem to make a lot of sense (although I'm not sure I buy his Jubilee Shares proposal). His economic model seems much more matched to reality than most I have seen.

http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/
Counter-examples, or a couple examples of the salt: skype, getty images, doubleclick, etc. sometimes, it really does makes sense to add capital and/or shield the company from the public markets. When going through change, etc. builders and flippers are co-mingled though. just like vc presumably.
Check out the gorun project.
I was waiting for the "it's all marketing" argument to appear and I was not disappointed.
And I thought it went very well--it answered all the questions that I was going to ask you via email.

Thanks for doing it.
Thank you very much for posting this. I've been working on a Backbone app and have never seen this before!
> When you think about it, the whole thing is a fascinating controlled experiment in different approaches to hardware and software development philosophies.

Indeed. I'm really curious to see how this pans out. The iOS approach is clearly easier for everyone in the short term, but it remains to be seen whether the Android's approach will give them a significant longer-term advantage.

Pixel perfect fitting vs. Wide range of options, and ability for manufacturers to "mess with the formula"
No connection. Two separate points: 1. A prediction that FB will be acquired 2. A suggestion about the importance of email addresses, both for you, the FB user, and for FB.

Hypothetical: You need to contact one or more of your FB friends. The only contact info you have for them is what they submitted to FB. But you never copied their email address from FB to your computer, phone, etc. FB "implodes". Or maybe you just want to switch to another social network and you want to let your friends know about it, but for some reason you cannot do it via FB.

Email is how things gets boostrapped. This is why there was a battle using dirty tactics between Google/Gmail and Facebook early on over snarfing people's email address books.

Your email address is valuable. Valuable to you. And to FB. And to any company that might acquire FB. My suggestion is make sure you have your own copy (e.g. saved on a USB stick, SD card, HDD, or even printed out on a sheet of paper) that is not controlled by some web startup.

My guess would be a lot of FB users don't. If FB implodes, they could lose contact with certain people.
Apple’s A6 Successor Could Stagger the TV Industry
Do you remember how anti-abortion activists would put up a website listing the names and home addresses of abortion doctors? And every time one of them got shot, the activists would gleefully strike through the name of the doctor on that site?

Put up another such site, starting with these guys: http://www.uniloc.com/index.php/company/
This is a critical point. Energy return on energy invested (EROEI) is a concept everyone should be familiar with.

I suggest beginning with the work of Professor Charles Hall of SUNY-ESF.

http://www.esf.edu/efb/hall/energy.htm
> The problem is that many people like to lie on a mattress before they buy it.

One can get all of the benefit of this by selling a single mattress, but also sending 3 or 4 foam mattress toppers to choose from. Correctly designed packaging would let the customer re-roll the topper, then use a vacuum pump to collapse the rolled topper back into a compact form for return mailing. (The pumps would be cheap and disposable, so wouldn't be returned.)

Using a system like this, one could become the Zappos of mattresses. There would still be a restocking and return fee for the mattress, but one could let the customers exchange and try toppers to their heart's content, so long as they took good care of the merchandise.
> Building code is being a developer

I want to build my code, not other people's code. I just want to use the tools, not spending lots of time making them work. Why do you think people buy Macs in the first place?

> and osx is no different that any other unix variant, it has its own toolsets, like dtruss, shark etc.

Except that Unix variants can be extremely different once you go beyond the basics (shell, cd, ls, cat, grep). Kernel interfaces, package managers, directory structures, dynamic linkers, authentication. "No different than any other unix variant" makes no sense.
Ah yes, we previously had a box spring but opted for the slatted frame. I like it a lot, and I like having the bed lower to the ground (although the best my back ever was when I slept on tatami for a semester in Japan)
This is an excellent point. It's amazing how worked up we ("we" the General Public) get over "platform wars" -- I remember arguing Super Nintendo over Genesis back in the day, and iPhone v. Android is just another iteration of that.

Bottom line, it's your money, buy what you want and what makes you happy.
Ask HN: Does this software exist?
As a musician on the side, I've come across a "problem" that I'm hoping someone can help me solve. Here's the "problem":

* I have a group of songs that I play (let's say 50) that is a fairly static list

* I want to be able to plan out set lists based on those songs for various gigs and then print out the set lists in advance

Right now, I'm using a kludgey combination of Excel and Word (Windows guy, but I do have a MBP). It sucks - I make the list of songs in Excel, then I create a separate document for each night (and copy/paste the songs in).

Ideally there's a piece of software that lets me drag and drop the song onto a "view" (or whatever) that I can save/retrieve/print. I'm just trying to simplify the process of creating a set list. Sure, I could create it but it seems like this should exist already (but I can't find it).

Any ideas?
Here comes another bubble... still relevant
Edit: I think this is a wonderful idea, and would use it, and can't wait for them to iterate. What I wrote below is intended to be constructive feedback.

I was ready to go for this, but $25 per slide doesn't work for me.

My deck is currently 30 slides. They're mostly low-content placeholders, many of them having 3 words or less, and they could all be handled by picking a nice theme, with maybe some minor tweaks.

However, some slides are content-heavy and could be optimized for attractiveness and "usability". And some will have to be redone because they make no sense or something.

So I could totally see paying for a customized theme and pallet and fixing the content-heavy slides and minor tweaks on the other slides, but that's not $750.

Also, 5 days sucks. Everyone I know always makes slides at the last minute. I'd could see paying 30% more for same day, or 50% more for 1 hour delivery though.
Pps. yes. Ofcourse the dude next to me did not know about the possible problems the auther mentions. Which ofcourse is an issue.

How to explain to a "regular dude" anyone can listen your phone call if they want to?

In my world everyone "normal I know" loves the mentioned app. How do I explain them everyone can read their messages if they want to? They answer me, everyone can steal my "normal" mail too if "they want to".

Ppps. I modified the typo i think i created after 8 pints.
The estimated price tag for a good shot at implementing SENS and demonstrating robust reversal of aging in mice is $1B: $10M/year for ten years in each of seven research programs, plus some padding.

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/11/strategies-for-en...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2012/04/aubrey-de-grey-on...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2004/10/the-cost-of-sens....
> Could you fake interpretation by continually recompiling everything?

That's pretty much what the modern JIT VM Smalltalk environments do. On recompiling a method, all the affected JIT compiled machine code is kicked out of the code cache, and you start from interpretation again, which eventually results in the "hot" code being JIT compiled again.
Twitter hands over Occupy Wall Street protester’s tweets
Armed with this blog post and a laptop, you could start spying on IM traffic in your local coffee shop in five minutes. I don't know where you'd even begin with spying on SMS, but I bet that in the least it requires substantially more specialized equipment.
NAT will never disappear.
Do Not Track support added to Chrome