skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Correlation may not equal causation, but it does definitely count as empirical support. The slides I posted may not prove that minimum wage causes unemployment among the lower skilled, but they certainly support the idea. At a minimum, they move it away from "idealized assumption" toward "something that survived contact with the data".

And really, does economics ever get much better than that? I think it rarely gets even that good.

When you have a correlation, the logical possibilities are that A causes B, B causes A, C causes both, or the correlation isn't real -- just random noise. I think the last option is pretty unlikely, and I'm having a very hard time imagining how unemployment among lower skilled workers would cause minimum wage increases, or what in the world would cause both. Particularly persuasive to me is that the strength of the relationship changes with education level -- exactly what I'd expect.

No, I suppose I don't know for sure. It's always possible something else causes both, and sure, the dots are all over the map even if there is a relationship; it is a complex system. But to be honest, I really do find that data pretty persuasive.

I didn't see anything in the Wikipedia entry that changed my mind much, either. Mostly it was unrelated to what I posted: studies specifically on teenagers (which showed more or less what I'd expect, that minimum wage increases decreased employment), and a comment that in a complex system, lots of factors affect unemployment. (Sure, of course).

I don't know, it says "Economists now disagree", but it doesn't say much about what changed their minds. I don't feel bound to change mine just because they did, though it's certainly something to take seriously.
Have iOS6 users been waiting this long to get GMaps back?? Given the blowout, why on earth didn't Apple give special approval to GMaps and push the existing version back into the App Store?
No worries. I've kept an eye on you for a long time (through Tryton mostly) so when I read your name, I felt I had to mention your involvement in Tryton.

That said, I think your remarks are that of anybody who has expertise in OpenERP and who finally feel free to criticize the software. Me an several of my ex-coworkers share the same.
> "People reading HN probably understand concepts like investment and lack of guaranteed rewards."

Investments usually have an upside commensurate with the perceived risk.

"Pay the regular price of a game, and you have a 50% chance of getting the game, and 50% of getting nothing" is not really an investment - it's a charitable contribution to someone's dream that you might see something out of.

This is why I think the current Kickstarter model is doomed in the long run. Once it becomes clear that a large portion of Kickstarters will never deliver anything close to what they promised (if they deliver anything at all!), the whole concept of crowdfunding will become a whole lot less attractive to a lot of people.

Not unless prospective projects were willing to take a substantial discount to soften the risk - but that destroys the viability of Kickstarter for many projects.
The point is that "notability" seems to be a 1-to-1 proxy for "the popular culture and nostalgic recollections of < 25 year olds".

Which is ... daft.
Nothing a bit of RAM and a fast CPU can't fix... Alt if you have a very large solution with multiple projects you could split it up...
You can import notebooks in other notebooks if you turn on the option to autosave your ipynb files as .py files too.

1. In ipython_notebook_config.py, set the following:

# Save .py for each notebook for import elsewhere

c.NotebookManager.save_script = True

2. Restart your notebook server.
3. Save any notebooks you'd like to import under module friendly names. (They wind up in the same dir as the ipynb files.)
4. In your interactive notebook, import your_other_notebook.

This works well when all your notebooks are in the same folder, which is the default. I haven't given much thought to how you might create packages this way, but perhaps with a few code changes you could?
The main site/webapp is still down (3 hours later) but individual sites are up. http://theparisreview.tumblr.com/

They're returning 66.6.36.7 for DNS.
I wrote a small email client in Rebol in 2001, it could download email via POP and send via SMTP directly via the protocols and a socket.

It was a TINY program and it worked cross platform due to the fact that there was a web client for Rebol. I actually used it in production just for myself. Amazingly, I just googled my name and Rebol and found the mailing list archives where I was asking about the project... ah, the power of the web's institutional memory!

Rebol (the language) took a bit of getting used to because the syntax was more functional in nature (although it is note a pure functional language). I had just come from working on some C++ and CGI/Perl programs so it was pretty different. It was a fun experiment to stretch the mind.

Honestly, I hadn't given Rebol a thought since I just saw this post... nice to know it's still alive and well.

The book (still have it on the shelf) I first used as a reference was "Rebol: The Official Guide".
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But if you don't publish an A record you get an ugly browser error message, whereas publishing the wildcard gives the user a notice saying that no such blog exists.
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> Stats don't lie though, parents income and education is highly correlated with their childrens' success

Is the lesson that parents' education causes this, or that parents who value education/learning produce that type of child? Not to be a "correlation != causation" parrot, but it's worth considering.

Maybe being raised in an environment where participating in "the system" (school, college, salaried job) is the norm produces children who are more likely to participate in the system themselves?

> but I got the interviews because I have a degree

I wouldn't argue against this point on another site, but it should go without saying that here in hacker land this isn't really a thing.
There already are things that aim to be "the WordPress of Newsstand"; see:

http://theperiodical.co/

http://www.mobilechameleon.com/toolkits-to-develop-magazine-...
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A note from Alex on Primer Labs site:

http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues

Changed link for the actual post.
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OK, maybe I set the bar too high.

But it's currently far, far too low.

That any small gang of weirdos can get pages deleted is bazonkers. And given the rise of deletionism it's easy to round up a deletion posse for damn near anything.

It needs to be harder to delete. The Library-of-Babel examples[1] you give would still be deleted even if the bar were higher.

[1] http://jubal.westnet.com/hyperdiscordia/library_of_babel.htm...
I wasn't trying to suggest that Kickstarter should be regulated because of situations like this, but pointing out that grellas's analysis of why nobody would bring suits in this case applies with equal force to most situations where large numbers of people have their rights infringed in ways that are not patently easy to prove.

In theory, a class action suit would resolve whether the failure to deliver was just over ambition, etc, or due to some malfeasance, but for the reasons grellas outlined, such a suit is unlikely to be filed or carried through to a conclusion. In effect, the deck is systematically stacked in favor of the potential wrongdoer. He wins not only if he really did nothing wrong, but even if he did something wrong but it is non trivial to prove that he did something wrong.
I think its important that this is coming to the FOSS world though. I agree that Mathematica/MATLAB are brilliant in this regard, but you (or your employer) has to shell out the big bucks for them, so if you want to collaborate with others who aren't on your platform you're almost certainly out of luck.
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The three things I like about IOS 6 vs IOS 5 maps are the Turn-By-Turn Voice Nav, Vector (Fast/Rotatable/Quick to download), and, most important for me on long road trips - OffLine access to the Map Data. Here's hoping google offers all three on their IOS App.
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Well, for starters, tablets and phones aren't generally equipped with connectors and cables that can supply enough power. Charging over USB limits you to 25W at most, but laptops generally come with power bricks to supply two or three times that, and desktop-replacement notebooks go much higher than that.
Christopher Williamson (DreamQuest founder) is a friend of mine, and posted on his FB wall that a donor pulled out at the absolute last second. There were plenty of people who would have chipped in, but they couldn't react in time. :(
The existing version was an Apple app, that used google technology. They would have to relicense the data to use the past maps app. I'm sure they'd rather spend that money to improve the new one.
Not exactly what you're asking for, but Ratchet's landing page documentation is very slick.

http://maker.github.com/ratchet/
Apple's approval rules/guidelines are not set in stone. They change all the time. A couple years ago they were very strict (and non-agreeable to most people), but since they've backpedalled a bit and have been much much leaner about "replicating already-existing functionality" - approving and even promoting calendars, notebooks, ebook-readers, browsers, calculators, mail clients, weather clients, etc.
Looking back I recall this article I read in 2005, it was interesting to note it had some similarities to the way data is expressed in JSON and similar ways to declare functions that we now use in javascript (myfunc = function(input) { }, etc.). JSON was released in RFC 4627 in 2006 - the timing and similarity is interesting.

http://www.rebol.com/article/0206.html
Yep, same here, 386 SX/16 FTW, installed from floppy images created with rawrite.

"Distro"? What's that? :-)

That said, it's time. Long past.
How many of those examples do you think are unrealistic?

Also, do words mean specific things to you, or are you just trying to communicate how article deletion makes you feel? Because when you call Wikipedia a "lie" that has "inverted the premise" and "ratched the door shut" on contributors, you should know that's not only false, but trivially falsifiable.

Here's how:

1. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:NewPagesFeed

2. Sort by "Oldest"

3. Set a filter on articles by "new editors".

4. Notice how there are tens of thousands of them.
Cool tech and I like the decentralized approach but how are you going to monetize it? Or are you doing it for the love?
Chuckled at that, given their scale I'm sure they are already at fixed rates for colo space and bandwidth.
Apparently he's already on a plane to Miami, but who knows if that's true with how often he says things like "sorry guys, had to lie to you to protect myself".

http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-on-the-plane/
The IOS6 Map is actually significantly better than the IOS5 maps (Vector, Voice Turn by Turn, Offline Access, Fast) - And, for popular urban locations in the United States - it's a significant improvement.

The people who want in-situ transit directions, want Google's much superior search experience, and those who got screwed over by Apple not covering their geographic area particularly well - will be happy about this upgrade though.
You actually aren't paying Kickstarter. The money goes through an Amazon Payments account directly to the developers, after Kickstarter takes off their fee. The chargeback would hit Amazon, and it would be up to them to try to recoup the cash from the developer.
That's sort of the obvious thing, but on the other side you have people that you can't do any really meaningful product development without customers, or you're likely to build something nobody wants. Is there a good balance there?
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This argument doesn't make any sense. The internet is full of places to host content. The only virtue to hosting it on Wikipedia is to obtain the label "Wikipedia article". You're complaining that the label is selective, but selectivity is the only virtue of the label to begin with.

If you think "search" is the answer, you don't need to do anything. Let the deletionists do their thing, and just put your content somewhere else. Search will find it.
> So at various points, people are going to not make the cut. Do we simply say "well, if you're not in the top X% of the nation you'll have to make do on $10/hour?"

False dilemma. The choices are not "either get a good degree from a strong school, or make $10/hour forever".

> we can't simply wave our wands and make everyone 15-30 IQ points smarter

I'm not sure what your point is here.

> why should the answer be that poor people have to work their asses off to catch up just because they made the wrong choice of parents

I wasn't arguing that they should, just that they could.
Hope I didn't offend. I really enjoyed your post; the coroutine syntax seems like an extraordinarily intuitive approach to state machines. Game-changing, maybe. Look forward to trying it.
They actually had about a year left on their license. Source -> http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-57520590-501465/apple...
One thing thorium proponents tend to omit is that there was a German thorium reactor which was considered to be in regular service (i.e., non-experimental). It suffered an incident and was shutdown several years thereafter as the costs of dealing with the incident and ensuring safety overwhelmed the operating company and forced it to seek a government bailout.

So there is some negative experience with Thorium. And the Germans are not willing to try again. Since the Germans that designed that reactor have the most experience with Thorium, and they are not trying again this should give a bit of a pause for others.

However, China is licensing those German designs and will try similar reactors in the coming years so we will see how that goes.

See :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#Thorium_High...
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Not earth shattering, but useful.
Nothing wrong with a "lifestyle" company and making a couple 100k for yourself. No need for all the headaches of running a public company and possibly getting kicked out of your own company by VCs, boards, etc. like Jobs did.
That quote is relevant if he is still making progress on the project. But I haven't heard any evidence of that. Unless he at least announces that he's still working on it, I think it's reasonable to treat it as canceled.
I have installed Bump twice now, 1 year apart - on my iPhone, then on my Android. Both times it failed to bump files. I wonder if it has inherent issues.

That would account for "100 million downloads!" but not actual active users.

Just now it said "Network unavailable" while I was connected to WiFi. It found a network when I turned off WiFi, but still failed to Bump.

Uninstall.
On a blog post for Tinfoil Security, it would be better to phrase this as "We also check for these types of vulnerabilities." Tinfoil Security clearly found this specific vulnerability using their own product.
It wasn't an approval problem. I bet Apple would include Google maps in a heartbeat if it was free (and ad-free), but they had to pay for the privilege of having Google Maps.

The old app was Apple's maps app, that just happened to use Google APIs. And of course, to use Google maps data without letting Google show any ads, you have to pay Google. And if you have 400M iDevices, the number you have to pay Google is probably in order of >$50-100M per year (or something like that - I have no idea; just wanted to say that it's a lot). And even after paying that much money, Apple still didn't have turn-by-turn navigation or vector maps (the rumor is that Google wanted more user data and Apple refused).

So, Apple decided that instead of giving Google $500M in the next few years, to spend that money on developing their own mapping technology and be masters of their own destiny. Sadly, the result is laughably worse than Google's data, and probably will be comparable to Google's 2011 sometime in 2014.
The only people complaining about Google Maps seem to be non-iOS users.

Because the mobile version has been available and was about 80% as good as the app. Which really showed just how lacking the original maps was.
If, in an emergency, you need to pump in salt water,
you're going to ruin the equipment via corrosion.

Well, yeah, but is that any worse than if you have a different reactor design? Considering that, in a meltdown scenario, corroded equipment is not your biggest problem, it seems you would want to at least have the option. But most of what I know about subs comes from reading "The Hunt for Red October".
> Sadly, the result is laughably worse than Google's data, and probably will be comparable to Google's 2011 sometime in 2014.

It will improve sooner than that. Apple has been rapidly making deals with data providers in each country. They never had those in place at launch which was why it was so bad.
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I would've expected a basic "domains accessed + timestamp" log on a per login basis would be reasonably standard to guard against abuse of computer facilities.

Would grep-ing a classes logs for the timestamps of accesses to "math.stackexchange.com" be too great an infringement to guard against fraudulent activity.

It's probably only tortuous but still fraud in the process of obtaining a degree is a pretty serious offense in Uni terms.
Having a few months up your sleeve on current licensing terms doesn't mean you could sit back and wait for the expiry date before acting.
Personally I'm still on iOS5, I've been waiting for this to upgrade to iOS6.
My wife and I make less than that combined. We bought a 2br in a very unfashionable corner of the city, during the boom. You could do better now. So 170k is workable... as long as you're willing to lower your expectations.
I imagine they're working on scaling and bad content filtering mechanisms in the back end, and integrating deanonymizaton from 3rd parties, and a secure API for authorities as required by law. All of these wonderful features offer nothing for the customer but probably help them make money from what is otherwise freeloading traffic.

Anyone else who's trying to create a flikr clone should take these requirements into consideration when designing your architecture and calculating your TCO. Map reduce fleets needed for these kind of analyses after the fact is not cheap and you want to have that stuff hitting the ground so you can start working on new features right away. When flikr was made 5 years ago, these kind of features weren't really a consideration for someone with an old user-as-the-customer-model in mind. Stewart Butterfield a co-founder resigned in 2008, stating that he was an old tin man in a new age.
Dropbox buys Audiogalaxy
Google Maps for iOS could arrive tonight
The issue that you run into in smaller cities (e.g. Minneapolis, Dallas, Austin) is that you can't have as long a SELECT query when you're hiring developers (or looking for jobs). If you demand a Scala expert with production Cassandra and Hadoop experience, plus 4+ years of Javascript.

Outside of the star cities, you have to grow your own talent. On the other hand, people don't leave you every 2 years and you don't have to give people 20% raises every year to account for the disgusting housing prices.
I often wondered how he got away with that.
You can find the source at http://code.google.com/p/alsing/source/browse/
yield != coroutine.

if f1 -> f2 -> f3 -> yield, you only go back to f2. Coroutines requires yielding all the way to f1.
But Nathan, I think you made a mistake earlier today when you priced your ebook and some videos for $200, and tried to fool people into thinking MailChimp and Facebook used your product.

Now you're gaming HN votes again in the same day so you can rack up the sales. Then next week you'll post on HN on how much money you made off of us, and get even more sales. Amiright?

BTW, isn't bdunn supposed to chime in any moment now?
I was having the same thought.

But until proven otherwise, I'll assume strange coincidence. Although, when microsoft.com falls of the face of the earth tomorrow, I'm calling it a conspiracy.
Well done! Congrats on getting this built, but also approved by the school officials. Coding is hard, and it's great that you can do that, but the key development here was convincing the principal to change the policy so well done on that!

I like the idea of the electronic hall pass that changes colour -- probably helped convince the principal to change the policy since that's a direct benefit to the school admin.

What concerns did they raise, and what do you think helped convince them?
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True, but a lot are "This could turn out to be far more difficult and expensive than we anticipated" sorts of affairs.
This seems somewhat Hashpay.com inspired: https://twitter.com/ffloat/status/269959712290791424
I was thinking the exact same thing. Also, it would have been nice to see what each additional polygon was at each stage, beside the merged results.
That's funny you say that. Over the past 6 months I started to reference more as a small business or company and less like a start-up.
Fun related trivia:

I just read Robert A. Heinlein's first "Heinlein juvenile" (i.e. young adult) novel Rocket Ship Galileo. It was published in 1947. The rocket ship's power plant was a nuclear reactor using... thorium.
As someone who likes Apple and its platform(s) and has invested heavily in them, I'd like to believe that, but something tells me it won't.

I'm quoting John Siracusa, because I think what he said makes a lot of sense: Google does brute force (i.e., driving cars all over the world and having thousands of real people auditing the maps data), but Apple wants to get its data using "clever" algorithms. Clever algorithms is what caused [1], and countless other issues.

What I said above is debatable, but the next statement is (I think) absolutely non-negotiable: Until we see Apple Maps (or one of its partners') cars driving around the world (the whole world, mind you - not just US and EU), its data will be demonstrably worse than Google's. It might be good and usable, but still will be worse than Google's :)

[1]: http://www.macrumors.com/2012/12/11/apple-fixes-australian-m...
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Everyone who has interacted with Alex says he is a stand-up guy... and that counts for something.

But if I took people's money to build them an X, and I failed, I would feel really bad about it. I would offer a heartfelt apology, and I would give them what I could to compensate them for my failure.

Alex may have tried hard. And he probably doesn't have the money to refund to people. But he could help his case by being honest about the project, and to recognize that he failed to deliver to those who invested in him.

Not only will that calm many upset investors, but it's the right thing to do.
So it looks like all this drama was much ado about nothing. CodeHero just posted a response to all of this: http://primerlabs.com/developmentcontinues

Can you believe this mess was all initiated by one guy boasting about filing a class action lawsuit? I can see why lawyers make the most money in America... when someone is inconvenienced, their first course of action is to threaten with a lawsuit.
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That would make sense if he left the comment on Tinfoil's actual blog post. Here in HN i don't think it matters.