skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Social mobility in America, contrary to conventional wisdom, is lower than in most European countries." I guess that for tech entrepreneurs that's not true, but for the rest of the economy it is.
Do construction builders "deserve" residual royalties as well?
3D printing closes an important loop.

Development board - check
Operating system - check
Enclosure - ?
>(germany, estonia, singapore)

I'm very interested in Estonia. If you're in Berlin, may I ask you for some chitchat over a coffee?
Reward tracks supply and demand, not risk or merit. Risk may reduce supply, but there is no general market for risky things that people don't value.
drchrono (iPad Health Records) needs experienced SaaS sales leaders
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When You Should Build, Not Buy
I doubt it, it's a 50 mbit connection.
The use of an allusion in a title is incredibly common and is not a sign of disrespect. See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LiteraryAllusionT...
If you buy into A/B testing, then you probably have the possibility of increasing your revenue significantly, which would drive up your price above the recommendations here. (Disclosure: I think I can guess the site you're talking about from recalling a reference you made elsewhere.) Also, there may very well be CPC referral opportunities associated with your domain which, in-season might yield far more revenue than what you're seeing, although I'm not sure how gray those networks are.
5 Keys To Building A Business That Doesn't Bury The Humans At Its Core
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast
Every time you do a query on W|A you see a brief animation of the game of life while the result is loading. I was referring to that.

(and my comment was meant tongue in cheek)
Compensation structure in an overall economy is a moral issue. We currently use supply and demand (roughly) to set it. But there is no particular moral worth in using that mechanism. It's rather that other mechanisms tried seem to have even bigger problems.
The aim of this new “Progressive era”, as it was known in America, was to make society fairer without reducing its entrepreneurial vim.

Today I learned that the word 'vim' also means energy or enthusiasm.
Why not.

Here I'm serious and know what I'm talking:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4607657 (-8)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698183 (-2)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1826775 (-2)

Here I'm flamboyantly trolling:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3360362 (+8)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3334634 (+2)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3116814 (+6)
Unfortunately I barely missed the live jump. Will a recorded video be posted, or is there one already available?
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Hold value constant, and in the chain of entities that produce that value, an outsized portion of the upside will go to the people who bore the most downside risk.
You get better people when you raise compensation. Big whoop, you get some freeloader problems. Why would that be a bigger problem than any other aspect of society? My main point is that teachers are held to some of the highest character standards in society, and should be compensated as such. By way of contrast, think of the character standards for CxOs of public companies and/or financial institutions. Feel free to list your own here, but I'll start:

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Incredible book, I've reread it at least twice.
I really dislike comments like this. What happened today was an impressive technical achievement by any measure, and for me at least, one of the most nail bitingly tense things I've ever seen broadcast, and yet we still get people calling it a "bit of a mess", criticizing utterly trivial issues, because that's all they can criticize.

Perhaps YouTube was buffering because of the MILLIONS of people watching this amazing event? PR mess? You've got to be kidding.
Waterfall Swing
or just hijack graphics from dribbble.com and use them on a private smore.com page and send it to customers. takes 15 minutes and is free.
YAWE (Yet Another Wiki Extension; for Chrome)
Higher standards? They already have to perform under impossible demands with no resources.
Basically:

<div class="row">
<div class="span6">
Hello
</div>
<div class="span6">
Uncentered World
</div>
</div>

and compare it with:

<center>
Centered
</center>

Note there are extra 20px at the end.

Resizing the window makes everything drag to the left. So much for having a grid.
He failed breaking the record for longest free fall duration.

If he will get a second chance to do that?
I'm aware of the fact that this makes attackers' jobs easier. However, many websites (including Codecademy) tells you whether the email address you provided is registered or not, when you visit the Forgot Password page. If you are displaying a message such as: "If the email address you provided is registered, you will receive an email shortly." then I can actually believe that your main concern is security and that's what prevented you from displaying a clearer error message.

Just added this at the end of the post for clarification.
This post made me happily spend ~$100.

Quick tip for anyone trying to get older editions of some of these books: use Abebooks

For example, some of the drawing on the right reviews mention that the 1989 edition is better. I find this happens with many new editions of older books.

You can find near good as new editions of older books on Abebooks, at very reasonable prices. I used it to get a great copy of SICP, and just now ordered a version of How To Win Friends And Influence People published during Dale Carnegie's life, as Paul Graham recommended.
After creating a hit song, does a team of singer come along and maintain it and add features? Does yet another team build the next version of that song? Or that movie?

Remix? Sequel? Live performance?
I'm pretty sure the article author meant "New York style" journalism, not stories written as if they belonged in the New Yorker magazine.
I was going to mention the Ottoman Empire as well to support my argument that civilizations collapse for more than one reason. In the case of the Ottomans, the discovery of alternative trade routes definitely reduced the amount of gold going into the coffers. But there were also many other problems, such as growing income inequality and rampant corruption among the ruling class. These economic and social issues eventually led to the stagnation of the empire. Then competitors caught up and surpassed them technologically, which directly translated into defeats on the battlefield.

That said, you're right that Venice was a trading empire, so losing that competitive edge hurt them a lot more.
>Two- Competitive forces will favor companies which support this approach.

Kinda like open source won the desktop? No wait...
It sounds like it wouldn't be too difficult for him to break on a second try, given he was only 4-7 seconds away from breaking it.
I grabbed one OCZ and one Samsung. Fingers crossed.

Managed to persuade company to pay for it as well as I'm being a guinea pig user :)
We're planning on releasing our drip campaign app for Django under the BSD license one of these days. I must admit, it is rather cool.
A couple of fun patterns:

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I imagine this is just going through a stream of commits and only picking out the ones containing fuck and shit.
It's not even a 'to be fair', this has got nothing to do with programming or startups. Why would it get upvoted or discussed? It's more like to get flagged as OT.
I'm on my second Galaxy Nexus (switched from CDMA on Verizon to the GSM model from the Play Store, on T-Mobile) and both of them have been absolutely flawless. Never been so satisfied with a phone before; running CM10.
He was also complaining just before that that his visor was fogged over. Perhaps he deployed because of that.
i doubt he's gonna do it anytime soon. it took them ages to prepare for this and in local interviews (saw them in Austria) he mentioned a couple of times that he finally wants this to be over and move on to something else. but technically, there's definitely more room to go crazy.
You can quibble with what side of the fence I'm describing, but the facts (and my sense of them) remain. Yes, they didn't write good, maintainable code AIUI, and whether that's due to inexperience in writing maintainable code or to shoehorning CS training and metaprogramming into a web developer role is fairly irrelevant to me. As it happens, I think the latter is the bigger problem.
Sorry, I guess I misunderstood that point. I thought you were saying something about the commercial nature extending to site uses, not just pointing out that there are commercial sites funded by ads. You're definitely right on that point.
Wow a whole blog post on the presumption that not allowing some special characters means they are vulnerable to an sql injection attack.

How about.. testing that theory?
Complain about the archaic teaching methods if you will, but having trawled through substantially similar texts in the past (some writing styles truly haven't changed in centuries), I'm quite sure that this stuff improves both reading comprehension and spatial imagination.

To focus your mind on a small piece of symbolic or verbal-mathematical information for a great length of time is difficult, but very rewarding. It's something that we don't get very often in the modern world. Even in programming (which is probably the fastest method of turning a mathematical entity into something 'real') we often have to switch between countless different tasks in order to solve just one nontrivial problem.
You're right in that it's not fair to write off the improvements to commerce. These will have a large, unforeseeable impact. That being said, from a North American perspective it seems that commerce is steadily improving while economic equality and working conditions are worsening. We're at the point in society where technology may have permanently made large swathes of people essentially redundant.
Ask HN: Open sourcing GWT based daily deals site code
Hi Hackers, We worked on a daily deals startup in 2011 which was catering to the Indian market. Unfortunately we did not take over the world and decided to dedicate our time and resources elsewhere.
Now I am thinking of open sourcing the code as it can serve someone out there as a good resource for building a bigger application in GWT.

What is the best way to do this and are there any tools which you will recommend which I can use to cleanup and search for any information which i might not want to release in the wild (hard coded pwds etc?)

Also, even though it was failed startup does it lend any credibility to the resumes of the founders :). The interns moved on to land gigs at FB and I am pretty sure the experience helped them but what is the hacker communities take on how to sell this experience.

I apologize if this sounds an odd question but thoughts are appreciated.
Incredible. This kind of stuff puts my faith back in humanity. With all the horrible stuff going in the world, you see something like this and its simply amazing.

I actually got teary eyed when he landed and fell to his knees. Such a huge leap for the space program.
Why did you leave out what was stated just before and after what you have quoted from the study? You seem to be misrepresenting what they intended to show with those numbers. The point of that number was not to show a decline, but rather to show stagnation.

"The study found that, for the first time in decades, the growth rate of immigrant-founded companies has stagnated, if not declined. In comparison with previous decades of increasing immigrant-led entrepreneurism, the last seven years has witnessed a flattening out
of this trend. The proportion of immigrant-founded companies nationwide has dropped from 25.3 percent to 24.3 percent since 2005. While the margins of error of these numbers overlap, they nonetheless indicate that immigrant-founded companies’ dynamic period of expansion has come to an end.

We also performed a special analysis of Silicon Valley, which is widely known as the international hub for technological development and innovation. The findings indicate that 43.9 percent of Silicon Valley startups founded in the last seven years had at least one key founder who was an immigrant. This represents a notable drop in immigrant-founded companies since 2005, when 52.4 percent of Silicon Valley startups were immigrant-founded."

Also, some people are starting to notice that innovation is slowly stopping:
http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/04/opinion-fox-net-innovat...

I will also let the Economist argue for me:

http://www.economist.com/node/21564589
They've mentioned that even something like acquiring a replacement balloon would take weeks, let alone the men and materials involved in such an effort. I doubt the funding or will is there to go for it, at least without another level up of altitude.
To the author: have you tried making the board wrap around instead of having an impenetrable border? In my experience it looks better and keeps interesting things happening longer :)
Do we have enough good developers that compensation should be held more or less as it is now?

Or does demand exceed the supply of good developers such that compensation systems are up for negotiation?
why is baseball zero sum? it's like rounders isn't it? so how does one side getting round (or whatever it's called in baseball) mean that the other team cannot? does the sum of the scores of the two sides always sum to the same value? i imagine not. so what an odd thing to assert. why?
Windows 8 TV Ad Campaign Kicks off Today Along With the Official Netflix App
You might love it, you might hate it, but like it or not Windows 8 hits the streets in less than two weeks on October 26th. As a result the Microsoft marketing machine has kicked into overdrive, and we finally have our first of what is likely to be many television bound ads designed to reel in consumers far and wide.
I doubt you'll find anything built like a 3310 outside of ruggedized phones for construction workers that survive being run over with a bulldozer, and I don't think those are cheap.
He took the record for fastest freefall (supersonic), highest skydive and highest manned balloon flight. Pretty sure he'll be happy with that, and to let Kittinger keep longest freefall.
Lecture: Mega-Cities, Urban Poverty and Planning / Janice E. Perlman
Thanks for catching this. The simple fact he was so excited for Felix cheering him on the whole time really added a wonderful dynamic to the event.
Felix Baumgartner flight photo set :)
"It’s important to test on every device you can get your hands on and make sure to test across a variety of screen sizes, OSes, makes and models. We’ve listed six devices in the checklist as a good starting point."

I sure don't see this list of six devices anywhere.
Dell Starts Taking Pre-Orders For The XPS 12 Convertible Tablet / Ultrabook
Few would argue that Windows 8 is a radical departure from a software perspective, however this generation it won’t just be Microsoft looking to set new trends. Redmond’s hardware partners are gearing up fast for the October 26th release date, and Dell has started taking pre-orders for its new XPS 12 convertible Windows 8 tablet/Ultrabook.
What is this fucken echo chamber, India-nigger? Let me out.

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Yah, I actually started formulating the idea when I was thinking about a local business owner in Vancouver - Vikram Vij. The guy is the brand. What draws people to him and his stores is his incredible authenticity. His interactions with people and his business practices are all products of his authentic self. It's really amazing to see. The guy doesn't advertise or take reservations at all and has one of the most succesfull restaurants in the city.
This is the big change between now and Kittinger's jump in 1960: private, truly non-governmental* companies can and will achieve incredible things just to market some sugar water.

* I see a distinction between companies like SpaceX and those like Lockheed, in the will to do things if nothing else.
Heroku CTO - 'Idea to Delivery: Application Development in the Modern Age'
I am really looking forward to this generation of laptops. Years ago I had a 12.1" HP TX1000 which had a built in wacom and the screen rotated / swiveled, and it was awesome.
I applaud the effort; it's great to see rigor available for free.
The fastest freefall and the longest freefall are at odds with one another. Additionally, the record holder used a drogue parachute to slow his descent.
Tom Davis

http://www.geometer.org/index.html

of the mathematical circles in the Bay Area exposed me to a quotation about learning mathematics: "Mathematics must be written into the mind, not read into it. 'No head for mathematics' nearly always means 'Will not use a pencil.'" Arthur Latham Baker, Elements of Solid Geometry (1894), page ix.

A series of FAQ files on mathematics learning for the Epsilon Camp summer program

http://www.epsiloncamp.org/FAQ.php

expand on some of the same ideas.
Little Nemo in Google-land
While I'm no fan of the current policy, important to note that most of new US businesses are tied to the construction sector. They're founded usually by non-immigrants and incorporated to limit liability on a given construction project. As US real estate market recovers, more construction-related LLCs will pop up, thereby lowering the share of tech, dry cleaning, restaurant and other companies with large immigrant founder base.

Source on new businesses and construction sector: http://www.hudson.org/files/publications/Kane--TheCollapseof...
NB: screen-scraping Yelp is against the TOS and you'll get shut down pretty fast if you try it.
Interesting to me too. While I'm not above putting the occasional gripe into a commit message, I don't think I've ever used profanity. I prefer commit log messages to be useful later, to myself if not others. So I try to avoid useless messages like "Fixing stuff" (with or without expletives).
Latent Semantic Analysis in Ruby
My argument explicitly avoids a dependence on an originalist interpretation of the Constitution.

"Even independent of what the Founders may have desired, this is clearly a negative development if you believe in self-government. Governments should have limits that are defined by their citizens. Ours does not."
They definitely meant journalism as written for the New Yorker magazine, it's generally considered to be one of the best publications out there for long form, investigative journalism.
In my eyes the two biggest CSS frameworks would be Bootstrap (obviously) and to a much lesser degree Foundation. Fortunately these two are almost exactly the same in terms of what they achieve and how you integrate them into your app. The decision you have to make is whether you prefer LESS or SASS for a CSS pre-processing language, whether you like the saturated gradients and rounded shapes of Bootstrap or the boxy but shinier theme of Foundation, and other quality of life (for the developer) and aesthetic preferences.

I prefer Foundation due to my preference of SASS over LESS (I was also personally convinced of the benefits of SASS and Compass over LESS by Brandon Mathis and Chris Eppstein) and because it also looks unique in an online world plastered in Bootstrap and other similar-looking frameworks.
Is "New York style journalism" a preexisting term? A quick google doesn't seem to turn up anything.
That's a really fascinating reality!
I'm confused by the question. Compensation for developers is a consequence of the available supply.
Current Free Fall Record - 4:36 - and still holding

Felix's Free Fall time - 4:22

Short by 14 seconds. Guess he pulled the parachute, when his helmet wiser started fogging up. Would have been great to have him break the existing record after having jumped off from a higher altitude than the earlier record jump. Good luck next time - to whoever makes the next jump.
The question isn't really who is going to write it.

It's who is going to pay for it?
Why DVF Putting Google Glass on Runway Models is Significant
I use a little obscene language myself, but there's nothing cool or enlightening about it. Any site built around it is at best noisy, but more like puking all over the screen.
I think there's a reason most humor websites have some sort of curation process.
Not to mention there are twice as many versions of Red Bull without sugar than with.
The tech behind Felix Baumgartner’s stratospheric skydive
You're right, I'll give him Paypal. But I don't see the distinction between VC and macro hedge funds. Are you saying VC are socially useful?
Free iOS Worker
I have been working with iOS on the side for about 2.5 years, but haven't really found any good projects to work on. I am wanting some professional experience that I can put on my resume. Anyone in the need for some free (as in Govt. cheese) iOS development work? I am willing to put in 10 hours a week into a project.
Yes, I thought about mentioning something like that as more borderline.

On one hand, it might be legal, deciding the agency is in the person submitting the link and the other person is only automatically shoving some bits around.

On the other hand, you might decide that that's not a service that can legitimately be paid for. Some things can't be outsourced. I think right now that it's legal to 3d print a rifle but it's not legal to have someone else print it for you (but I'm having trouble finding references).

Either way, the intent of the law matters, and it's possible to outlaw commercial enterprises based around piracy but not individuals' actions. One method might be to limit the number of 'uploads' to a number like 10.
Sorry to comment off of the content of the post, but when I load the page the Like button flickers shown/not shown a bunch of times causing annoying visual jitter. I'm on Chrome 22 if that is relevant.