skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideas are interesting, but there is one really big suggestion: "we should instead make capital gains regressive over time" - this is the single best idea I've heard recently!

It would encourage self-sustaining growth instead of fly-by-night profits, made in the present at the expense of the future - ie let the market sort out which sectors are more likely to bring better long term outcomes, considering the current focus on short-term is a negative externality that should be fixed by government intervention.

The author also properly acknowledges that increasing tax on the top 1% will only be redistributive, and increase consumption - which might certainly have better effects on consumption than leaving that money to the top 1% who might keep saving it while there is no current shortage of capital.

But that is only a mechanical property of the progressive tax scheme (lower tax for lower incomes), which makes the redistributed money more likely to be spent instead of saved (or paid in tax) - yet as the author points out trading consumption for consumption is pointless given the current state of the economy.

It's quite a interesting time.

It seems like the current situation is not just a demand shock which can be treated with Keynesians stimulus, but a new kind of shock based on a slowdown of the progress of technology - especially of the "empowering kind".

I wonder how this will make us reassume the traditional models such as Solow (technology drives long term growth) or Romer (technology and education), since it now seems there are different kind of technology and education that we should invest in - and some that we should consider as negative externality (like humanities - I have nothing against such studies, but they should not be on the taxpayer dime)

Introduction to Solow model : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoclassical_growth_model

Introduction to Romer model :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_growth_theory
When top-line phones hit $150-200 unlocked, people will be able to upgrade once or twice a year.

Not to mention that it would finally break the carrier subsidy/contract model. If you're looking for business practices that harm consumers, that should rank many places above the "problem" of phones and tablets being too affordable.
In my opinion, you have a lot to offer.

1) From a user experience / marketing standpoint - (target demo's have a better grasp of their own likes and "dislikes" when engaging an application.) - if one of the targeted demo.

There are "discoveries" that usually happen through conversation. A mature programmer can provide an entrepreneur perspective or another idea to improve the product due to the architecture of other programs (built in the past).

2) Depending on the Programmer; the older way of training code revolved around meticulous detail) - also very helpful sometimes in avoiding bugs.
I just noticed this whilst trying check the status of the booting in Mountain Lion issue, which last time I checked was only fixed in SVN. Does anyone know if that fix has been put into the main binary available on the site? Just hoping to get back to using vagrant without fear of kernel panic.
>> "A local personal cloud"

> You mean a server?

Yes, it was some kind of ironical use. But in fact the remote storage and services we call "cloud" is not more revolutionary than the same thing done locally.

With all those new tablets we move around in our houses and outside[1] we certainly need a central repository of things like our music and pictures, and Google and Amazon et al. know it well enough[2], but I do not agree to trust them with my important stuff, and some recent bad experiences show that data sent to the "cloud" is not your anymore, except if you run this "cloud" on your server.

1 .http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/11/do-you-wanna-touch....

2. http://rob.pike.usesthis.com/
This is a sensationalist headline and a little tidbit of information that's been blown up into an entire article!

The page could be replaced with this:

"Did you know Mitt Romney's family has monetary holdings in a company that makes the voting machines that will be used in Ohio? Also, voting machines made by a now-subsidiary of this new company have a history of malfunction[1]."

[1]: http://www.sos.ca.gov/voting-systems/oversight/ttbr/red-hart...
Good counter point. There are plenty of horror stories about this exact thing, and it is totally different.
I've been complaining about lousy laptop resolutions for years, but it finally seems to be getting better. I helped a friend buy a new laptop last weekend, and there were plenty of 1080p options.

It's still not ideal, because the 16:9 aspect ratio sucks, and it's ridiculous that nobody but Apple has laptop displays matching the iPad 3 or Nexus 10 at any price. But it's an improvement over the years of 1366x768 regression.
Linus keep telling us he owned the web. Unfortunately linux is not directly important to end-user. Just another ass.
I think one can spend an infinite amount of money on one'e health--from research into diseases you are likely to get, all the way to immortality. Splurging on these kinds of buildings is only satisfying a paranoid, irrational urge, IMHO.
Have you tried testing your idea without coding or hiring people? Most ideas in start-up founders' heads usually aren't any good in terms of making money. It's not until the pivots when they found profitable models.

You've mentioned you've talked to over 20 people and they said they would buy your product. However, getting them to pull out their wallets when you actually have the product could be a different endeavor. Not sure if the problems you're solving are painful enough.
Pessimists may be good at identifying threats, but actually preparing for them implies the belief that the outcome can be changed with effort. That's pretty much the definition of optimism.
Oh no, you have the problem precisely backwards. Journalism is now a very respectable profession. Which is why it attracts people who don't know anything.

It was much better when journalism was a trade that you went into. Street savviness was the journo's hallmark. They had no loyalty to power, because they came from the wrong side of the tracks, and their livelihood depended on exposing secrets. Great journalists were ugly, ink-stained, alcoholic wretches.

Those people are gone. Now there's two kinds of professional journalists. Middle class people who were educated to do journalism at university, fighting over the few scraps of remunerative work left. And people who want to shill for one of the dominant political coalitions. These groups get to the gym a lot more often, but are constrained by their loyalty to the system.

So, journalism would be better if it was less respectable. We also need to put a stop to all the social mobility that's happening. When you block an entire group of people from attending university or holding office on some irrational basis like ethnic origin, you usually get some really good journalists. But there is cause for hope. Perhaps the end of privacy means we'll get more people in the media like Eliot Spitzer.
Low interest rates are preventing investment by people who have money, sure. But in theory they do stimulate investment in new plants and equipment. If I can borrow money for almost nothing I can build a factory to make products that are barely profitable.

But the OP is right. Free money encourages waste. It encourages companies and governments to build things they can't really justify and can't afford to maintain. The real monument to Japan's lost decades is the amusement parks, golf courses, and rail lines that are crumbling because there was never enough demand to support them.
I'm using 4.2.2 on ML with Vagrant; been stable so far for me.

Latest version available for download here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/server-storage/virtualbox/...
I'm sorry but that seems to go again the currently admitted way the IS/LM model works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS/LM_model

A high interest rate means firms reduce their investment spending to avoid high interest payments ; or said otherwise rising interest rates lead to crowding out of private fixed investment.

Look at the IS curve on http://macrotutor.weebly.com/2-is-curve.html

(but I might be wrong - I'm quite new to macroeconomics)
Is Hacker News just an aggregated website status page in 2012?
Printing functionality would be good. Does it exist as a plugin?
So to paraphrase, your answer is "give up, forget about the property that every voter can audit the system, and fall back to relying on a trusted third party to certify the opaque process" ? But yet you call it an "obvious direction" ? And we haven't even talked about coercion resistance.. Hurricane madness indeed.

Please read up on actual electronic voting systems, what properties are expected of them, and what properties the state of the art ones can actually provide.
> Heavily modded version

That's the problem i found with foobar. I always enjoyed WinAmp and still miss it to this day on mac. Itunes is no comparison.
Sure, they are using low pricing to gain market share, but we all see the tablet market is now dominated by iPad. So some cheap fresh blood is a good thing if you ask me.
Julian Assange had a similar term, "scientific journalism". Scientific in the sense that you have to show your raw data.

Nate is a hybrid. The details of his model are not on Github or anything, but he does describe his general approach, and he works from publicly available information.
For now, pretend you don't have money.

Sit down with paper and draw each screen out, exact words, page names, prices etc.

Get to this stage before you involve anyone else. Best thing is that it's almost free to do and ensures you document your original ideas before you get overwhelmed with information & ideas. It will also save you money so that when you do hire a team they can get started straight away & things will be well communicated.

Best of luck with your project!
+1 for Airbnb! The great thing about a pin is that the owner can change it whenever they want, so they can change it for each airbnb customer.
I also build something similar when I was living in an apartment.

I've open sourced the it here:
https://github.com/amccloud/django-tropo-webapi/

and the bulk of it
https://github.com/amccloud/django-tropo-webapi/blob/master/...

It was great because it allowed my roommate and I to buzz people in from our own cell phones. It also allowed me to set an entry code to give out to friends and for deliveries. It would sms me and my roommate when someone came through the gate. To further extend on that idea you could create specific codes for specific people that only work at specific times.
Apple can't make money, with a 30% cut, on digital content in one of the world's most popular digital stores?
I think it's actually "who" in this case: the pronoun is the subject of "are biased."
Handing out data after requests is not an abuse of power, that's a failure of the data storage facility to do a bare minimum attempt to protect their users' rights. I say this because the actual abuse of power is secret Patriot Act warrants. When the government wants data, they don't use some sort of Mafia-style coercion, they just make it illegal to not give them the data.
Joe Scarborough quite literally is a republican (6 years in the house from FL-1) and runs three (I think) hours of coverage every morning on the "most liberal" of the cable networks. The whole notion of the "liberal media" as a unified force is itself a creation of the decidedly conservative wing of the media dominated by News Corp. MSNBC has a bunch of coverage that slants left. Fox is actually run by republican partisans. Yet it's the people on the right who complain the loudest, and the reason is precicely that they have their own partisan media to push the message.

Sigh...
If traditional political journalists assume that the race is too close to call because both campaigns tell them so, then they are gullible chumps, plain and simple.

The losing campaign will try to claim the race is close because they don't want their supporters to be discouraged and not turn out.

The winning campaign will try to claim the race is close because they don't want their supporters to get lazy and not turn out.
I disagree. Developers find jobs, freelancers find clients. Developers may find jobs through recruiters, but recruiters don't sell client work to freelancers (sure, anyone can take a referral fee, but this isn't the recruiters business model.)

I believe you're vocab is also a bit off. Clients don't look for freelancers, they look for professional service providers.

A lot of these providers (those who are doing it right) also have resources dedicated to sales and marketing and a lot of this happens locally. So, the connection channels are often SEO (client Googling for local dev shops,) Ads (local Adsense and other ad placements,) Networks (referrals,) and good old fashioned cold calling.

I have already built my own application for what you are proposing (scraping a clipping is pretty easy,) and I may not want for my sleuthing (I assume that's where your related info would come from) to be thrown in a shark pool. So, no, I wouldn't pay for something like this.
It's true and unfortunately this has been my experience at a couple of previous employers as well. Given the difficulties of actually collecting good data and properly analyzing it, it's no wonder that the same analytical tools, used to great success in some companies, can be rendered useless or even harmful.

I'll add that a third reason for the obsession over analytics is that stat reports tend to take the focus off of the decision makers themselves. Managers who aren't confident in (or wishing to escape responsibility from) their decisions can simply blame the numbers and graphs and say they had no other alternative.

In some dysfunctional organizations, "judgement" and "decision" are bad words that imply bias and liability, whereas "report" and "conclusion" are pure gold.

Don't be too discouraged, though. There are plenty of employers who avoid using analytics inappropriately and know that great products and customer service are even better than stat reports in the long run.
I'm a libertarian and I love the free market and pure capitalism.

OTOH, the great depression made a strong case for an intervention by governments at the macroeconomic scale - if only to smooth out bumps that could certainly sort themselves out in the long run, but which could still be uselessly painful for tens of years.

Fiscal policy is IMHO wrong, but monetary policy is not that damaging, especially since it doesn't do much damage to real assets (like say gold)
I'm not sure how it works on Android but contact info gets synced on iPhone as well. The problem in the pitch is non-existant because when you upgrade to a new iPhone, you can restore contact data. Alternatively, if you move off the iPhone, the address book keeps a copy on your computer as well.

This is very different than your response here, which is less about losing contact info, more about always having an up to date source. Personally, I can only speak for myself but I don't see this as big of a problem.

I do acknowledge I've seen people post losing contact info (for whatever reason) at least once or twice on my time on facebook but of course thats not representative of how big the space is. However I'm not sure if this problem is big enough of an issue (just my two cents).
I miss TechTV! I owe so much to The Screen Savers, Leo & Pat! Wow nostalgia.
Why do you assume 'pure' capitalism the ideal we want to achieve?

To me that's like saying we need to stop playing football with all of it's unnecessary rules and regulations and get to the purest form of sport: kill the man with the ball.

All sports put arbitrary restrictions into the game. You can't touch the ball with your hands. You have to dribble while running. You can't pass to a teammate when he's too far down-field. All of these are to make the sport better for the players as well as the spectators. The players often complain about the rules, try to get around them and/or fight with the refs, but the appropriate response is generally to call them big whiny babies.

That's not to say the refs should be corrupt and influencing the game too much; that needs to be called out when it happens.

The way I see it, the game spun out of control (mostly because the rules were changed to favor risk-taking) and now the Fed is trying to reset it to a point where we can all start playing again. Can we at least agree that a game with the rules removed is not always better?
There is a caveat though, you are not just uploading, but syncing your local file as well. The governement having your Dropbox file deleted will delete your local file on sync, and you'll be SOL if you didn't keep other backups.
You can download complete Linux VM images that just work from the net. VirtualBox is free and is installed in 5 minutes. It's hardly frustrating. Certainly less so than getting a RPi up and running, not to mention you end up with an odd, underpowered device secondary to your regular machine.

That's not to say the RPi isn't an interesting, rewarding experience on its own merits -- that's why I got one --, but I wouldn't recommend it to anybody interested primarily in getting a *nix environment for experimentation or programming.
The Music Animation Machine: A tool for listeners
A really challenging job offer given the server specifications:

> 10,000 compute cycles per month

I would consider assembler instead of PHP.
Fancy name for the lesson "cleanup after yourself" I'm trying to teach my son. But still a good idea that I will try to make use of in my own life.
It's not like there is a spectrum of capitalism with a federal-reserve type system at one end. You need to throw currency into the economy some how. The argument is about how. Doing it at the rate you can mine gold isn't really any more sensible than doing it at the rate the Fed decides to.
It's largely by stealing from future generations that we've been able to solve many short term problems (e.g. hunger), so using the fact that we've solved many short term problems to argue that our civilization will be sustainable in the long term makes no sense.

I think the authors are right that all of our major problems are theoretically solvable. But using the fact that we've solved many problems previously to argue that we're likely to solve all our future problems is not only wrong, but it's in part thinking like this that's why everything is so broken to begin with.
He's being voted down because he deserves it. His comment is based 100% on ideological handwaving. It's really no different than saying that something is "blasphemy" except he's espousing a different religion.
I saw a qualitatively different type of warping at 100 orbs than I did at 99. For instance, at 100 orbs, I would see the tops of arches bend and distort as I approached them. No such effect was visible at 99 orbs. I'd pull it up again just to double-check, but it's a bit of a pain to actually collect enough orbs -- a freely adjustable mode once you've beaten it once would be nice :)

I also would have expected to see some sort of length contraction evident in things like the fence post spacing, but I never noticed any.
> Free money encourages waste. It encourages companies and governments to build things they can't really justify and can't afford to maintain

But are we seeing that here in the US? Empiricism is the path to salvation my friend.
I would counter that in fact the US Government is the biggest of the problems. All of those other actors fall under the law and are much more likely to be punished for their actions whereas the US Govt doesn't have to obey any laws and constantly finds ways around the existing protections, National Security Letters as just one example.
The Climate Change Denier Who Became The Voice Of Hurricane Sandy On Wikipedia
http://news.yahoo.com/amazon-ceo-confirms-kindle-sold-cost-0...

Amazon has confirmed that they're selling the Kindles at cost hoping to make it up on content. Third parties have done calculations on the Kindles and found the parts and assembly to be higher than the selling price (without taking into consideration things like shipping, warehouses, credit card fees, etc.). Amazon is being above board in saying that they're hoping to make their money back via content.

In terms of the P/E thing, I only brought it up because of how some investors justify Amazon's price. Some investors believe that Amazon will be able to get large market power in certain industries (maybe retail, maybe e-content) and then charge higher prices to get fat margins at the expense of consumers. I don't think that's in Jeff Bezos' ethos (to his credit). However, cornering a market is a strategy that companies have done.
Politicians, by and large, are fairly numerate. Speechwriters rarely care about numbers, and policymakers care not at all.
The problem is you can only see it in the rear-view mirror. Get back to me in a decade.
I was involved in the creation of the Arduino CEC library, so I instantly recognized the schematic included in the PDF on page 17. My hardware implementation of interface is here: http://www.andrewncarr.com/hdmi/ (I included additional wiring for hotplug detection and an EDID interface)

It has been great to see the progress in the 2.5 years since, with LibCEC and availability of commercial adapters. As far as I know, no discrete video card yet offers access to the CEC bus.

I'm not sure what security vulnerabilities are possible via CEC, no vectors that I can see, but I am no Moxie Marlinspike. I suppose newer sets may store things like Netflix credentials, but CEC is often implemented in a discrete chip, or embedded port controller. That was the state of things in 2008 models anyway, and it is a fast moving area, so I am likely way out of date. The OSD "internet features" of my 2008 Samsung are laughably quaint compared to what budget models can do today.
> (Well, only that here we also have deferred log flush, which means the changes will take a second or two to actually make it to the file system, but that still demands the same aggregate throughput from the HBase. That is where this test is not fair).

That was actually the bit that I was concerned about - I failed to read the parent comment properly and assumed it had the exact same concern I did. If you don't have to do a disk write because you're not guaranteeing durability, you have a completely unfair comparison.
SASS Proposition: extending media queries by output buffer style functionality
There is some stuff in Title 42 Chapter 20 Subchapter I-A section 1973c about alterations that might restrict, but these changes in NJ probably would be construed as extending or preserving the franchise.

My knowledge on the matter is a bit fuzzy and goes back to 2000 with Florida's electors. Title 3 Section 5 seems to cover this, but only lists 6 days before appointment of electors, and 6 days before meeting of electors; and only when controversy arises.

A bit too dense with commas, prepositional phrases and conjunctions for me to decipher. I find D&D easier to understand than US election law.
They could have meant Project Euler is more suited for functional languages than imperative, IO utilities.
It's not a mystery.

NYT article title should have been "Submerged in 13 feet of saltwater, high capacity batteries will burn"