skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 'disproportionate amount of power' argument comes out a lot in these discussions about unions. It sounds like a good argument but I think it ignores the fact that the labor market itself is a pretty powerful force that works against corporate interests.

Intertwining employment with health insurance has been a big mistake in my mind. Not only does it distort the insurance market in many ways, but it also radically affects job mobility as it artificially binds employment and heath care decisions creating constraints that wouldn't otherwise exist.
Yes but unlike the laptop market, the mobile phone market is much more socioeconomically diverse. With the availability of internet access becoming more and more widespread around the world, more companies will be able to cheaply adopt it where it couldn't adopt any new technologies before.
they're just gonna concentrate on content/media sharing via url, and that isn't necessarily big-company driven. people sharing links and talking about them etc.
Many cases like that existed during the Indian Independence movement too. One that is very famous is the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jallianwala_Bagh_massacre) In which a general ordered his army to fire at a crowd of innocent women, children and men totally unarmed and assembled to celebrate a festival. Its a very famous lesson taught in history classes in schools here in India. Read the wiki article.

Despite such a heinous act of cowardice.

Dyer was removed from duty and forced to retire. He became a celebrated hero in Britain among people with connections to the British Raj.

It worked in his native country, but by and large it did do a lot of damage and paved a way for national awakening to fight for independence in India.

Actually the best way to help the Palestinians currently is give them cameras, ways to publish their stories. And then teach these principles of non violence. World will listen sooner or later and its far better than firing rockets and killing innocent people at the other end. And it fulfills their purpose very well.
Sore about all that angry starving masses server downtime?
Spotty enforcement isn't the same as lack of regulation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety_in_the_People%27s_R...
Yes. Hard drives do in fact come with the advertised storage. Manufacturers rate hard drives in using SI prefixes. Operating systems measure hard drives in binary bytes. It's not false advertising if the measurement system is valid.
> Having a monopoly supplier, however, gives that supplier an incentive to maximize the net economic value of its customers: this allows it to extract more of that value

Could you explain this claim? I wouldn't agree with it if you we're talking about fulfilling the demand of other sectors (like music or food), so I'm curious why it would apply to violence.
I appreciate your analysis, but no, the rockets are more fatal and dangerous than script kiddies hitting "Go" on their LOIC application from the comfort of their homes, far away from danger. Taking down websites and leaking passwords is inconsequential juvenility when compared to the hell that Israelis in S'derot have been living in for years and years and what citizens of Tel Aviv are experiencing now.

Hamas is a homophobic, misogynistic, illiberal, theocratic terrorist organization and Anonymous is supporting them.
FTW ( http://www.ftw.co ) is an alternative which is in the same space. I did some work for them on the Android side of things.
I think you're assuming that violence is somehow more profitable than no violence. I disagree. In fact, I think it's the opposite: violence is much less profitable than a non-violent solution. Violence only becomes more profitable when you have a monopoly to it: it doesn't cost you anything to use it, because you know no one is even gonna try to challenge you.

On the other hand, when you don't have a monopoly, even if the other side is weaker than you are, you would still have to factor in your potential losses and see if you can strike a deal that would allow you to avoid violence and, thus, losses completely.
Something doesn't add up. They are claiming a dec14 shutdown. Regular app approval delay on iOS is maybe one week, but really two during the holiday season. Let's be generous and say that publishers will take only one week to implement the new SDK. That only leaves 10 days of wiggle room? Yikes.
Others have chimed in with similar explanations but it often revolves around the principal problem of how do you allow "freedom" without infringing on someone else's?

For instance, if I want to drink radiation laced water, Libertarians would think I have the right. They'd also say I should have to pay for my own medical treatment resulting from that. Reasonable enough.

However, if I drank radiation laced water because a chemical company was disposing of their waste in my backyard and I didn't know, Libertarians would tell you it's your fault for not having the proper testing equipment or paying a company to run these tests for you.

The same thing shakes out for food. For employment. For air travel. For basically everything you do you're assumed to have done enough research to know the risks you're exposed to. Libertarianism also makes the enormous assumption that a safe option will always be available.

Since there's zero protection from monopolies in a pure Libertarian society, they will naturally occur, and the results will be overwhelmingly negative for all but a handful of people, the proverbial 1% if that.

Libertarianism also as much as endorses discrimination as it sees it as your absolute right to decide who you provide goods and services to. Idealists would have you believe that non-discriminatory companies will always out-perform their discriminatory counterparts, but history has proven the opposite. If people are racist, they will certainly pay a small premium for service that reflects their views.

It's this every-man-for-himself approach to living that quickly degenerates into pure Darwinism where the one with the most money, who can easily afford to build a protective bubble around themselves, thrives and the others live miserable, dangerous lives.

Basically a pure Libertarian approach has too many dangerous failure states for it to be taken seriously. There are arguments that can be made for a more or less libertarian approach to problems in society, but to go 100%, full-on is to miss the point.
I think you're a bit confused about definitions. You seem to be using "aggression" to refer to violence, when it in fact refers to the initiation of violence. The NAP prohibits the initiation of violence, but not retaliatory violence.
Something the article misses: Sublime Text 2 already comes with a command line front end called "subl". Just copy it in your favorite bin/ directory and you can open your files with it from any shell.
That's odd. Can you give me an example of a common libertarian No True Scotsman argument?
I wonder if Netflix is considering standing up their own data centers, given how much their business relies on Amazon.
> the stairs are still an unmatched engineering feat

What in the world are you talking about? It's stairs, made of glass, typical in high-end civic and commercial buildings the world over. So common are glass stairs that they have to be pointed out to be noticed.

Here's the patent if anybody is remotely interested in reading about commonplace construction materials http://pdf.ifoman.com.s3.amazonaws.com/staircase_page_patent...
Cashflow.

Cashflow, cashflow, cashflow.

Getting paid up front is better for cashflow than getting paid monthly.
Funny. A few months ago I was subject to the exact same pitch. Everything exactly the same. As I read I thought "wow, these cosmetics companies got this down to a science." Turns out it was the same company, so who knows.

The only difference was that my salesman was in fact a woman, a very good looking and flirty woman. At the end of the day I didn't buy anything and I could feel her hatred towards me. Left a bitter taste in my mouth.
I intend to use invoice payments as a segmentation device. Want to pay by invoice? Expect to pay a lot more.

(I think I picked this idea up from Patrick McKenzie -- another one is offering SLAs to expensive clients).
I'll just ask you what everyone else is asking. Do you think this design patent is novel and non-obvious?

Wikipedia seems to think that design patents must be both (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent#cite_note-8). Is it wrong?

There seems to be some sort of meme here that, for some reason, design patents are completely above criticism. I don't understand how anyone can reasonably think that.
In China far more people die from eating food laced with toxins than do in countries with food inspectors.

Your argument is totally absurd.

So many people in Africa are dying of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases that have long been cured in western society, near apocalyptic levels of death by European standards, yet the population is growing and commerce is going on. Are you suggesting that this situation is "quite nice"?

When you eat at a restaurant that isn't expected you'll probably live, but if you die you'll just be a statistic. Is that any way to run a society?
Webscript Integration With Site44
The U.S. government is suing eBay over a hiring pact with Intuit
> You just have to preemptively provide all the stuff the AP department needs.

Do you have an example of a SaaS operation doing this well?
Entire books are written about pricing[1].

It's time for me to point out, again, that no other business parameter will affect cashflow and profitability more than your pricing.

You can adjust your costs all the time.

But prices are sticky. Customers remember that something used to be cheaper.

Really, again, let me emphasise this.

Pricing is the single most important business decision you can make.

Rails vs node.js / Ruby vs Haskell / bootstrap vs foundation / backbone vs sproutcore / trendoid vs hipster / cats vs dogs?

Only tangentially relevant to your success.

Pricing? Critical. Central. Essential.

Do not leave it to gut feelings.

[1] http://chester.id.au/2012/09/12/review-the-strategy-and-tact...
Hopefully, the hyperbole communicated the intent of a good-natured ribbing...
Yes, that is the reason why I'm suggesting that the Palestinians must show restraint, despite the frustration. Pursue a total non violent path.

Food, medicine and water is blockaded? sure. Go on a mass hunger strike. Let the world know about it, inform them about your suffering. I guess that has already started to some extent too. Forced into a apartheid set up on your land, forced to go through humiliating check points? March peacefully with full restraint to the check point. Don't get violent no matter what. Show the world what's happening there.

This is far better than the rocket attacks.
You're assuming it's only the government which is interested in providing me the information about services I use and the environment that I live in. An implicit monopoly of information.

But I want to ask you this question: can you come up with at least one monopoly that existed naturally for a substantial period of time without any government support for it and without anyone being able to challenge it?
A bit belated, but thanks for the answer!
Example pitch deck
I was wondering if you guys know about any available quality pitch decks.
I found myself the ones of AirBnB, Mint, and Profitably.

See here the links just in case you don't have them
1. profitably http://www.slideshare.net/profitably/sample-pitch-deck

2. AirBnB http://www.businessinsider.com/airbnb-a-13-billion-dollar-startups-first-ever-pitch-deck-2011-9#-1
3. Mint http://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-deck

I hope you guys more useful links.
Tnx.
Reza
> Google wants a mobile phone number, which of course defeats the point.

Can't you just pick up a pre-paid sim card in a corner shop? You get a "burner" phone as a bonus.
Well, it's not really a pure free market system, so it doesn't count.
Thanks for that, I'll have to have a look on this. But currently there are just too many bugs to fix before we can charge for it.
> I'll repeat the above question, what's your solution?

Responses like this are not aimed to be constructive, but to put a stop to reasonable discussion.

If I see that the current strategy is ineffective, I'm not allowed to say so until I have a fully-formed solution that is better? It's better to relentlessly pursue a course of action that is ineffective and has a significant cost in human lives, because 'we' can't think of anything better to do?
> Of course human life begins at conception--what is the combined human egg & sperm, a fish?

By extension any woman who suffers a miscarriage is a murderer, or worse, has a fertilized egg that fails to implant. Are you sure you want to stick with that definition?

> What's so great about estate taxes?

It prevents most of the money in circulation from accumulating in the hands of a very small number of individuals. It was a reaction to the situation in Europe where the finances of a country were, and had always been, completely locked up and social mobility was nearly impossible.

The rate at which these inheritances should be taxed is debatable, as the current rate might be a bit too high or, as Warren Buffet and many of his associates would have you believe, too low. He intends to push 99% of his wealth into charities before he dies so that his children will inherit only a few hundred million, minus estate taxes. Those poor kids. How will they ever survive?
(Not Constantinople)
Someone emailed us and said she's only got 6 give away projects while her friend's got 17. She said it's so unfair and she will never pay for this...
Aha, until I read about the SMS issue, I'd forgetten how incompetent Twitter was in the past. The whole 'scaling' debacle, etc.
Well, if he's in the bar talking to the bartender, he probably intended to get a drink anyway. Margarita is a drink, and most people wouldn't hate it, so why not. If you tried to ask him order a glass of snake venom or buy a ticket of state lottery or solve a set of linear equations, you'd might get a different reaction.
One simple reason that the C Preprocessor language is not Turing complete - the answer to the halting problem for any CPP input is "yes".
Your comments about how 'easy' it is for civilians to leave these areas seem to be aimed at placing the blame on the civilians for not having left the area, while absolving Israel of guilt. Even if you believe that Israel is in the right for bombing Gaza it makes no sense to try and deny that innocent civilians are caught in the cross-fire. Their blood is on Israel's hands just as much as the blood of innocent Israelis is on the hands of Hamas.
The government performs the function of a referee, and without it the players are free to make up their own rules.

You can only "vote" for a company with your dollars if you have choices, not if they assume a de-facto monopoly.

At least in theory you can vote for your government and effect change that way. This is why they serve a critical function.

Corporations are profit driven. Governments are election driven. These two dynamics can work together to create a reasonably good outcome. Libertarianism promotes corporate interest in isolation of regulation, leading to a run-away system of chaos and virtual anarchy.
What does AIDS & malaria have to do with food inspectors in the US?

In China, far more people die from a lot of things because the majority of the country still lives in poverty. Lack of government regulation is why they are one of the world's fastest growing economy and economic growth is the main engine for solving their health issues.
"Running with Kenyans"- Adharanand Finn
This has been what bugs me about gun rights people. The argument about personal safety is fine, but the people who want everyone to be armed in case the government decided to show its true colors or something? Um. You don't want a firearm. You want a tank.
If replacing the word 'nerd' with women, black, or gay in each sentence isn't acceptable, then 'nerd' isn't acceptable.
Facebook didn't try to become Twitter-like until later on, when Twitter was already becoming popular, IIRC. It was more of a "Twitter is social-network-ish, maybe we should incorporate Twitter-like features into our product."
China's economy grows so quickly because of the gap between China and the developed world. People will demand regulation as they gain power and awareness of the abuses that come with rapid growth.
By what metric?

Sorry, I know I'm being dense, I just don't see Hollywood stuff in my feed very often at all.

And if Twitter is talking up Hollywood, doesn't that mean Hollywood needs Twitter more than Twitter needs a board member with connections into Hollywood?
Hi,

One thing I found really confusing : On the gold package what does select features mean ? What can I select ? ( I later realized that it's the select package features but it took me a few minutes :) )
Huh. I thought you were quoting. That's usually what quotation marks are used for. My apologies.
WRT "if I drank radiation laced water because a chemical company was disposing of their waste in my backyard and I didn't know" from my limited understanding of Libertarianism, they do believe the government and legal system should promote property rights. Therefore, if a company pollutes your water supply, you would have legal recourse to recover damages assuming you live long enough.
Ask HN: If YouTube was founded in 2012 instead of 2005, how would it differ?
YouTube has always been notorious as a business for how expensive it was to run the service. Streaming video is extremely bandwidth intensive. That, along with uploading and huge traffic, means that YouTube's costs have always been high, which is most likely something that factored into the decision to sell to Google.<p>I assume these issues were even worse/more expensive in 2005 when YT was founded. My question is this:<p>In 2012, there many more services available to developers such as Amazon's S3, EC2, Heroku and Akamai. In an alternate universe where YouTube was founded in 2012, can you give me a prediction of how YouTube as a business would differ?
> if you use someone's API they have control of how
> you use it

"You have no right to complain about my behavior, because I'm perfectly within my rights to be an asshole."

Somehow I don't think this fits with the way the world works.
Seeing http://42floors.com/showroom was one of the greatest "aha!" moments I've ever had looking at any startup. I'm thrilled to see the company continuing to grow, I think it's a fantastic model.
As can be seen in these comments, people are penny-wise and pound foolish. They would rather support one of two presidents who enjoy inflicting trillion-dollar wars on other ethnicities than concede an inch of ground to a man who wrote a couple racist newsletters. The behavior of people towards a threat to the status quo, no matter how good and helpful the threat, is insanity.
GWT and Dart do as well
When your policy is to oppose absolutely everything, it sure is easy to make it sound good by listing unpopular policies, since those happen to be part of 'everything'.

But I somehow doubt that policy would stay the same if there was more than one (or now zero) of him. And I happen to like public roads, safety regulations, and currency that doesn't deflate.
OK, I'll grant you that, barring the last paragraph which is flame-baity and I'm not about to take the bait.

Suppose Ron Paul is not willing to compromise on his libertarian principles. Wouldn't he still make a good president considering that there are "checks and balances" and he wouldn't have dictatorial power? I mean there are so many politicians of various denominations out there and none of them that are of any significant power are libertarians - all of them are essentially "compromisers".

Having a diehard libertarian of influence in such an environment can't be bad for the country. Somebody to look after the liberties. To raise hell every time some commercial interests try to impinge on yet another one, you know.
Ask HN: Email to Name Lookup
I know rapleaf gives great data and rapportive is wonderful inside gmail but I am looking for a solution I can use when replying back to my subscribers.

Odd that I can't find anything easily..

Thanks in advance for the help!
Well that is an interesting proposal but Israel is occupying the West Bank and blockading Gaza out of security concerns, not out of any sort of program of racial subjugation (remember that there are Arabs and other ethnic groups in Israel that have full rights and representation under Israeli law).

By that I mean to say that if there existed the state of affairs, the political will, where a totally non-violent path was desirable and possible for Palestinians to pursue, there wouldn't be a need for these policies which they would hypothetically be protesting against in the first place.
This is a simple one, just watch Dr. Strangelove.
Yahoo's Mayer introduces OKR's (objectives and key results)
I agree, it was a very good read.
So you still haven't come up with a monopoly example. Can you prove that monopolies would exist in a completely free market?
I have a theory that it was Twitter forcing people to be consise that was one of the major factors of the Arab Spring revolutions.

Think about it: Politicians who have been trained in the art of speaking in soundbites have been ruling much of the world since the advent of electronic media.

Those who can't phrase their arguments in bite-sized pieces for busy people to digest come across as being ineffective intellectuals.

Titter gives ordinary people the ability to communicate in soundbites. Sometimes less is more. This is society-changing powerful stuff.
As somebody who lived in Israel, I recognized it instantly. After you live for some time there, you get immunity to such kind of things, but on un-immunized person, especially of character susceptible to pressure, it may have strong effect.
Sure.

Represent an economic transaction with {M, X, V}, where M is currency, X is some good or service, and V is violence.

For a music cd, there's three parties involved, though the third is sometimes not explicitly accounted for.

1:{-M, +X, 0}

2:{+(1-p)M, -X, 0}

3:{+pM, 0, V}

(aside: money, you see, plays a nice role of making it a 3-tuple instead of an infinite-tuple)

The first two elements of a tuple have the constraint that they must sum to nullity across all the other parties involved. You can't make labor or goods appear out of thin air.

Violence, however, doesn't have that constraint. You can always throw in more violence, and it's always a positive amount.

(Why doesn't 3 just set p = 1? It certainly could, but that isn't the optimal proportion to maximize sum(M). The incentive structure breaks down: Laffer bites with a vengeance. So there's some other optimal p 0<p<1 that maximizes sum(M) over all clients--what that value is is simply an empirical question.)

So let's look at a market of violence, with multiple suppliers:

1:{-(q+r)M', 0, 0}

2:{+qM', 0, V'}

3:{+rM', 0, V''}

where q + r = p' and M' is the total value that 1 provides at p' where p' maximizes M'.

This satisfies the required constraints, but it's not a stable equilibrium. q+r is that same optimal value p from before, but with a twist: it's not set by only one agent trying to maximize sum(M) but by two trying to maximize their own. There's no reason for 2 not to go for (q+e) instead of q, and the same is true of 3. Taking only q and r as varying qualities, and you rapidly end up at q + r = 1, which means no one gets anything.

In practice, what happens is that 2 and 3 have their own separate transaction since they can foresee that upcoming equilibrium:

2:{0, 0, V'}

3:{0, 0, V''}

That itself is unstable: assuming that V' > V'', the new equilibrium is

2:{0, 0, V'}

Leading to

1:{-p'M', 0, 0}

2:{+p'M', 0, V'}
if a politician can be described in such terms at the end of a career (in no less a house of "compromise" than the us congress) his accomplishments are not over.
It would be much more mobile centric; think a video Instagram.