skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're doing better! But no, I don't "hate" Google. Big companies and big groups of people in general have inherent morally failure-prone properties. Google fights these, and in many ways still manages "don't be evil".

Heavy-handed and one-sided strategies and tactics may be odious, I may "hate" them -- you should too if they're not well-justified and likely to prevail -- but that's not the point of this exchange, which haberman started. Nice try deflecting, though.

The point of my slide, and of my comments here, is to make the case for what's best for the Web. So let's get back to that.

What is best for the Web? Not NaCl, we all agree. PNaCl? Not with Pepper as a mandatory API for all browsers to adopt. And PNaCl has a JS back end.

Steve Jobs killed Flash. Plugins are in decline. However well Google, Mozilla, and others use NaCl for native code safety, on the Web JS looks highly likely to continue, and to get super-fast for the well-typed and GC-free code produced by Emscripten.

This all points to a future where evolved JS is the PNaCl format that works cross-browser. We're already working on this at Mozilla, but via Emscripten not PNaCl. If Google aims its formidable engineers at the same goal and works in the standards bodies early and fairly, great. I'd love that.
How do you define attribution? Both GPLv2 and MIT require you to retain the copyright notice which I would consider a form of attribution (i.e. I wrote it and not you).
You mentioned not using Winston because you liked to be able to see things on the console. Why not just change the configuration for development to dump to the console and to syslog in production?
You're arguing that the GNU C Library is incompatible with the GNU Compiler Collection?

(In the example, he's compiling ls with the -std=gnu99 flag, which means he's targeting GNU, not C99 or C90 or C11 or POSIX or any other standard.)
All right, awesome, thanks!
See the last section of http://paulgraham.com/inequality.html
If you mean Y Combinator, both of those essays were written before we started it.
> if the official API was GPL

Assuming APIs are copyrightable to start with. There is no broad ruling that they aren't (except maybe in EU: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20120502083035371 ) but Oracle tried to claim copyright on APIs and failed.
Saez's contribution to economics was a novel way to measure income inequality of really small percentages (top 1%, 0.1% etc.) of the population.

That may be, but income statistics like the one cited here don't require anything novel: The IRS publishes everything you'd need to know.
Yeah, I was looking for something along those lines (i.e. Brackets style, but I have no idea what to do about the file access and C++/CUDA integration (as I need to do some large parallel computing, the app is simply a front-end)).
> Furthermore, pg suggests that those who get rich innovate and drive society forward

That's not quite what he said. He said that making money is a skill like any other, and that one way to make lots of money is to innovate and drive society forward. He didn't say that was the only way to make lots of money; of course it isn't, as you go on to note.

> I think most people would agree that wealth creation is a talent like any other.

Wealth creation is not the same as making money. Or, rather, it's only one way of making money. The talent pg was talking about was a talent at making money by whatever means are available.

> I think where people have a problem is that the particular talent of business and wealth creation buys so much more influence in society compared with being in the top 1% of teachers, policemen, academic researchers, or even programmers.

I would state this differently: I would say that where people have a problem is that the particular talent of making money buys so much more influence in society, even when it doesn't involve wealth creation. Which basically boils down to: money buys influence, regardless of how you got it.
Here's a wrapper I wrote for ls a while ago that allows you to spell "--color" as "--colour":

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=684239
The easiest and naive way to fix that is to buffer the whole thing. Don't use this to do `ls-comma -lR ~`, but only on small directory hierarchies.

https://github.com/samsonjs/bin/blob/master/ls-comma

It's a disgusting hack and it works very well. I didn't find anything useful in the man page so I wrote this instead. Looks like there is something in the man page but I think my hack was probably faster.
I haven't quite checked out Flex, although I heard it's similar, but going slightly down, now. Any other improvements for Desktop apps, et al?
A core tenant of the American ideology is that any problem can be solved and only solved with more money. Telling people that more money is not the only solution will simply not compute.
US taxpayers should be subsisizing a communications infrastructure, not be subsidizing a direct-marketing operation.

Replace communications infrastructure with distribution network, and I totally agree.

I can already communicate across the globe in seconds; USPS should be used for cost-effective, efficient local delivery across the country.
Winston actually has a console transport. if that doesn't do what i expect, making a transport that wrote to stdout still seems rather simple.
Even John Carmack writes C++ now!
Where's your $150k coming from? The figure I usually hear cited is $350k, though that's for "household income". Adding to your main point though, it's also worth pointing out that $150k in, say, downtown New York is pretty different from $150k in, say, Cheyenne, Wyoming. But I'd still call both "upper-middle class." Maybe it's near the lower-fuzzy-boundary of "upper middle class", but I don't see how you think it's a classic "middle class" salary. It's certainly not an "upper class" salary.
Here's a plausible explanation for what is happening:

For any given user on facebook, there is a limited amount of promoted posts that facebook will show in their feed at any given time/day so that their feeds don't become overwhelmed with promoted/sponsored content.

So like other ad platforms, i.e. auction based, you are competing for that limited space with other brands and pages that are promoting/sponsoring content. If everyone is competing for the high value fans, i.e. us based fans, it would be easy to get "bid out" by putting in to low of an amount.

But since no one is likely targeting India/Indonesia/Philippines, those are cheap. And if your fans there are all that are available to you because of bid optimization constraints, facebook will most likely end up sending a disproportionate amount of your views to those fans.

Now for some sample math: If you have, let's say 5 friends in Indonesia, let's see how that could play out.
Indonesia and Phillipines facebook users generally have more fb friends on avg then the rest of the world. Call it 170.
So your potential audience of 'friends of fans' in indonesia is = 850.

Since not many, if any brands, are attempting to target those 850 people, you could saturate them with your promoted/sponsored content. Users in that part of the world also 'like' stuff more frequently and at a higher volume.
No let's say that you get 15 likes from those 850 'friends of fans'. That like action will create an organic story in those peoples' friends newsfeeds. So 15 people, with avg of 170 friends each, like that sponsored post and an organic feed story is seen on avg by about 14% of any users friends you could reach 357 more organic impressions.

That cycle can continue on and on.
Wow, this is very very relevant to something I've been thinking of for the past few months -- if you're interested in collaborating, shoot me an email.
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Looked at logstash: we actually liked it, but we already had a syslog server running (for a different project) and we wanted to just reuse that. Plus: we really didn't want to add an additional language dependency to our deployment (logstash is Java-based). We might end up using it for the search functionality, though: our current solution doesn't include search (other than trusty old grep) or any of the nice error/exception detection that we'd like.
The second statement assumes that the reason Romney is not popular with people in the valley is because he does not appear to be what he claims. This contradicts the first statement because it says that we don't know why these people prefer one candidate over another. To be more concrete, people could strongly dislike Romney's stance on abortion. In that case, it would not matter whether Romney appears or does not appear to be what he claims to be, that individual still would not like him.
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Interesting idea. It could be improved by filtering out stop words; right now it recommends Oregon and Belgium for "or" and "be."
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These numbers all come from the IRS. $150k around the top 1% for single/separate filers. $350k is married filers.
Still though, civilizations usually collapse for more than one reason. The discovery of alternative sea routes certainly contributed to Venice's fall. But the thing is, if it wasn't for the Serrata, perhaps they would have enough entrepreneurs to find other means of powering their economy. At the end of the day, if you want to be able to solve difficult problems and make progress, then you need risk-takers.
In a hits based industry the 'average' isn't very interesting. What's the variance across those top 1000 channels?

I'm really curious to see some more data here, I have a feeling that the disparity is severe.
No it doesn't, that's the point. The IRS publishes the top 1% and I believe the top 0.1%, but it does not cover the top 0.01% which you cited.
The nice thing about a sidebar is you can investigate a broader scope of the document's semantic content, as opposed to just specific sections. (but yes, it does... and this might be a good way to narrow the context)
There is no evidence that less regulation wouldn't careen us towards more massive wealth inequality even faster, as it did in the 1920s.

Pretty much every business sector demonstrates massive economics of scale, and once you get $10billion+ companies, you're kind of damned if you do and damned if you don't. If the government doesn't step in, those huge companies band together to screw regular people (see, e.g., tech companies colluding to keep engineer salaries down through). If the government does step in, those huge companies co-opt it through lobbying.

I think the solution may be a smaller government that is more aggressive about enforcement. Make it extremely difficult to grow companies larger than say $1 billion. Be much more aggressive about breaking up burgeoning monopolies instead of waiting until they get too powerful.
I just recently got the opportunity to join a team that includes some incredibly brilliant (and very well known) people. While it also meant a modest bump in salary, and the ability to work on a potentially very significant project, whenever someone asks me "How's the new job going?" I almost always find myself going on about how great it is to work with people much smarter than me...
Peter Thiel runs a hedge fund and most of his successful investments have been advertising-industry web startups. I'm not sure how much that really pushes society forward. At least Elon Musk is doing something truly socially useful with his money.

I suppose my brother and I are great examples of your point: I left engineering to become a lawyer, and he took his physics degree to an investment bank. More money in law and banking. But is engineering or programming really more socially valuable, as practiced? Like many engineers, I used to work in defense contracting--I feel someone more socially valuable as a lawyer, and that's saying a lot. Where does a talented programmer go these days? Silicon Valley? Where the big, world-changing work everyone seems engaged in is exploiting private information for advertising profit? I'm not sure if I believe that's any better for society.
How does one come up with something to sell?

That's backwards. Try: How do I come up with a community to serve?

And then you add on: How do I come up with a community that's within my ability to serve and demonstrates willingness to exchange money for value?

And then you go study that community to see in what ways you can help.
This should help out everyone else: TDLR for licenses

http://www.tldrlegal.com/
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/08in12ms.xls

Try dividing the number of $10M+ earners by the total number of taxable returns. You'll get a number surprisingly close to .01%.
Even among 'normal people' (non-programmers, etc.) a lot of sharing is done via the Internet, where most people are already quite adept at sharing URLs via copy-paste.

Besides, giving the game a name that really is kinda technical (if only in a shallow sense) gives it a certain cachet it wouldn't otherwise have.
What is the distribution like among the top 1000 channels?
Presumably the top of the top 1000 channels far outproduce the bottom, just like the top 1000 far outproduce the rest of youtube. Given such a distribution, what are the top few channels earning? 100,000 a month? 1,000,000 a month? Even more?

Other interesting questions: How much of that is profit? Relatedly, does it cost a prohibitive amount to have a highly successful youtube channel? Does amount spent on production each month correlate with amount earned, or do consumers care much more about the content than the production quality?

What is the median income of the top 1000 channels? What's the overall median income of active youtube partners? What's the median income of channels produced (primarily) by a single person?

Some of these questions should be answerable by looking at available stats, like views for the top couple of channels versus the lower end of the top 1000. (Are the actual channels in the top 1000, preferable ranked, available somewhere?) I'll see if I can answer any more of them in the morning...
This is really strange; I just don't understand why the company would do this. It doesn't make any sense, unless an employee in the company was too lazy to write his own stuff and wanted to pass off someone else's work as his.
> You've swallowed the big lie of globalization -- that only by exporting labor to 3rd world serfs can we enjoy the standards of living that we enjoy.

At the prices we pay today, this is absolutely true. We would be paying much more for iPhones if they were manufactured here.

> The government is an enabler of bad economic activity, but the capitalists are always the catalysts. Government regulations did not force Countrywide Loans to give $1M mortgages to people who lacked the resources to repay.

But that's exactly the point. They didn't 'force' banks to make bad decisions, but without the government's bad regulations, bad monetary policy, and bad fiscal policy, the housing crisis would have been much harder to come by.

I'm not saying the banks are not at fault for their poor decisions: I am saying that without the actions of the government, you would either have not seen the crisis at all or you would have seen a much smaller and less disastrous bubble and burst.

> Study the origins of the labor movement. Robber barons were/are very real.

It depends what you mean by robber barons.

Did certain businesses during the 19th century exploit workers and warrant the formation of certain labor unions in order to protect the workers? Yes. I'm not denying this.

Did the most successful capitalists in the 19th century make their money by exploiting workers, stealing from the poor, and adding nothing of value to society? Absolutely not. I'm not saying these men were angels, but these so-called 'robber barons' improved society by an incredible amount, far more than what unions have ever done, producing better and more goods at cheaper prices. The rising standards of living during the 19th and early 20th century were not a wholly a result of government intervention or labor unions, but instead _mostly_ because of technological progress and the ensuing gains in productivity.

And the labor movement is not without its fair share problems. Much of the violence in strikes during the 19th century was caused by the unions. As well, you had a great deal amount of racism.
I already listed two. If you want a third, add the Ottoman Empire.

Venice was a trading empire. Its empire became worthless. To bounce back from that would have required a transformation unprecedented in history. In fact, even knowing the history that followed, if I had been summoned back by time machine to advise the council about what to do to repair Venice's fortunes, I probably would not have been able to give them advice that would have worked, short of telling them about all the scientific and engineering discoveries that had been made since, and sending them off on a Riverworld-like future.
Oh but they employ more IT people, and require a CTO for the district, and all kinds of other spongers. Teachers should be getting paid at least double what they are now, and I have no problem with teachers starting at high five figures like a web developer can. I don't know if this means they're underfunded, funded enough but in the wrong places, or what, but for all that teachers have to work under, it is criminal what they are paid.

What if, like say corn subsidies, teachers are guaranteed to be paid enough to be able to buy an average price house within a mile of the school they work at? What if we had to stop bombing one country, let's say Yemen, in order to pay for it? Rhetorical.

These are the most trusted people in society, much more so than the police and politicians, and should be compensated commensurate with both their responsibilities and experience. You gonna leave your 5 year old at the police station or city hall all day?
Some places are really good here in NZ. These guys are close to us and a really good example, online menu http://www.soulthai.co.nz/, free delivery if you spend over $20 and they send their drivers out with mobile EFTPOS (card swiping machines) and let you split it. Pretty good thai too, but really the experience and convenience they offer is why we use them all the time.
Base - A super simple, responsive framework.
This looks way more like a long tail than a bell curve.

Pick a channel, multiply views by a ~$2.00 mixed CPM. It takes around 11.5m views to make $23k.

It would be interesting to know if this data includes PSY, who accounts for nearly a million dollars in the last 30 days alone.
> Marketing gets short shrift in the tech world, probably because tech is one of the major industries in which the marketing function and the product development function are separated to a large degree.

Which is ironic, because every web startup these days seems to be in the advertising industry.
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This calls for a twin study!
Jarallax
Kube - CSS framework
I am guessing they have been mostly left alone because they aren't really doing anything with the place. What would you do with it?
Haiku Deck - simple new way to create presentations
This is true. That it is so hard to get a copy of the actual school budget is a testament to the fact that they really don't want you to know either.
The channels follow a power law. I got the number of views from here (http://socialblade.com/youtube/top/5000) and plotted them: http://i.imgur.com/X6nEL.png

If the $23k average for the top 1k is correct, then only the top 250 or so actually make $23k a month or more. At that line are some pretty big channels, like Husky Starcraft and big bands like Kesha and Muse. In which case, this doesn't seem like a lot of money.
11.3 Billion Views (by top 1000 channels)
23 Million Ad revenue (by top 1000 channels)

2$ ECPM.
Drat, I just left the area. But I know the iOS developers for Seasonalysis are in Florida as well. Might want to reach out.
"You haven't explicitly licensed your code under any license and so, to be conservative, third parties should operate under the assumption that the code is proprietary"

I would have guessed that without an explicit license, open source is free for anyone to take/modify/reuse. After all, it is open source.

In other words, the default would be the most permissive license. You suggest it is the opposite - that without a license, the code should be considered proprietary. Can anyone more familiar with open source licenses clarify?
Little tangent http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight_bias
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So... does this actually work?

I'm using the latest Safari and OS X 10.8... if I delete the contents of the text box, four of the terms on the right remain.

If I enter new content... still just those four terms.

edit: the more I write, the less terms there are on the right, but they're still terms from the original content... if I type a word twice, I get the definition... three times and it goes away.
The person wasn't fired because that person was an algorithm.
That is an awesome plot. That combined with a combined with a tenancy plot to determine what sort of churn there is in the top 500 and its mix would really illustrate what sort of 'opportunity' YouTube is.
Live there, if I could afford to do so.
Yes, what Piketty and Saez did was a more sophisticated operation on IRS data to get a time series so that we can measure exactly how the top 0.01% etc. did.

Here's the link to the paper if you want the details.
http://elsa.berkeley.edu/~saez/
I don't see where in fijal's comment you got the impression that he doesn't advocate performance. I very much would hope (and believe) otherwise, that he cares very much about it. It also does not seem that he agrees at all with regard to writing in C, since his "last resort" sounds much more last than yours (again, a thing I'd expect from him ;). His point sounds like it is "if you care about performance, these are not really ways to get it, because they sacrifice more important things". If your issue with that is "yeah but I still want performance" I would bet that fijal would point you to PyPy :).
I think one of the Havenco guys has been on HN before...

Ah yes, see the comments from user rdl here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3766543
If they believed that the research had been misrepresented, then the fastest way to confirmation is to evaluate the actual data. Unmasking the source could be one way to do this.

As they were not a party to the agreement of anonymity, I think their actions are fine.
There are in fact a lot of bugs, it was written in just a few hours as a proof of concept.
tl;dr: The Russian leaders decided to give Cuba 100 nukes that were still left in Cuba and which the US hadn't taken notice of. But the russian diplomat Mikoyan was sane enough to see this was an insane plan and he was brave enough to stop it single handed. He made up a russian law that would forbid Russia to hand over nukes to foreign countries. The Cuban's swallowed it and the nukes were shipped back to Russia.
Compiler and standard library are two separate codebases, in fact gcc gets routinely used with standard libraries other than GNU's. Reimplementing printf parsing probably is the cleanest solution.
Trying to make sense of a power law distribution using average of the head is an interesting crutch, but a fairly crude one.

What are other ways to intuitively understand power law distributions? Where are the raw data for this one?
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You say you don't read Mises, but then you peddle literature from an organization that exists explicitly to spread his (and a handful of others') ideology.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4650573
I guess using the word "redneck" did carry the point quickly, just a wrong point maybe.

Regarding respect: cannot compare it with Switzerland first-hand, but in my experience Americans tend to treat each other with a lot of respect, compared with many other part of the world. Including cross-class encounters.