skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this sounds like the Next Great Thing, you really want to read the Beazley piece he cites at the end. Beazley comes to the conclusion that you want to use these techniques sparingly. That said, I found Beazley's tutorials well worth working through carefully. He finishes by implementing an operating system kernel in cooperatively-concurrent Python :-).
The churn rate at, for example, fast food joints is high enough that you can secure (piss poor, initially) promotions by simply not being a teenager that only works there for 3 months. By no means is it easy, but very modest "climbing" is very common in the fast food sector. Skill has nothing to do with low-level promotions, it is all about reliability.

The guy yelling at the toilet scrubber doesn't have his job because he is particularly skilled at yelling at toilet scrubbers.
the reason this hasn't been done is:

a) would require all servers and browsers to be updated for what is a marginal gain

b) privacy nightmare
Note that it doesn't say you the project is required to give you a refund if you don't get your reward. It simply says that they aren't required to give you a reward if you do get your reward. World of difference.
Kickstarter is neither purchase nor investment, it's a grey area.

I guess the lawsuits were bound to start flying sooner or later.
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"except on part-time work by teenagers" <= that's really important and shouldn't be dismissed so quickly. Teenagers working part time jobs is where most people, especially the poor, acquire skills and training that they can use to get better paid jobs later on.
It's easily legislated into oblivion for any particular instance - just ban the automated looms (or whatever else is replacing workers), or require that the companies still employ people to watch the capital do its thing (some unions have gone this route, at various points). It's not, however, easily solved well - both the above are things I'd object to; particularly the latter, where I feel like we're removing not adding dignity.
Isn't the problem with that whole argument that, in reality, the vast majority of startups do not succeed?

I'm glad that Kickstarter is trying an alternative business model, but I do worry for their long term viability/growth prospects. People reading HN probably understand concepts like investment and lack of guaranteed rewards. People who sign up to a $1,000,000 project for what looks like a really cool game that their friends showed them, and who then get told they weren't really buying anything but a possibility, might not. And in the long run, whether or not those people should have understood their role, they are the only ones who get a say in whether they open their wallets again in the future to support someone else's project.
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Totally agree. They state multiple times in the Accountability section of their FAQ that they understand that there are roadblocks and things that come up. Also that if the project can't be completed that it's in the owner's best interest to detail how the money was spent.
>For this reason they don't plan ahead at work, they don't save money and they waste a lot of resources thinking that there will always be something provided to them. This was her hardest problem in working in those cultures.

It would be good to know in which country your friend went to and what she was doing there. I was born an raised in Colombia (you can tell it by my far from perfect English), been living in Europe for more than five years now, and I've had the opportunity to travel to more than a dozen different countries. I completely disagree about the conclusion your friend jumped into from her experience near the Equator.

It was 1986, if I remember correctly, when our country was hit by El Niño[1]. We barely had rain for months, so the government decided for the first time ever, to implement day-light saving time and electricity rationing. Most of our energy is hydropower, so it was very important for us to make a very conservative use of electricity. Schools and offices changed their schedules and everyone was very conscious about the situation. I was just a child, but I realized how important our natural resources were and that there is a really big difference between using them and wasting them.

I speak for myself, but believe me when I tell you this was a generalized sentiment. I lived in a big city, but there are small villages (even Today) that only have running water for a couple of hours a day, because there's not enough money to keep the water treatment plant turned on 24/7.

Now, living in the first world, I can tell that people here in general tend to be less conscious about those facts. I see it everyday at my office, at parties, public events, etc.

I don't think this has to do with geography, it's something cultural and it's not like that in the place where I come from. Is people in Hawaii living day by day and wasting resources because they are closer to the equator? I don't think so.

I recommend you to travel more, don't let your friends tell you, experience it first hand, get to know different people, different places. It makes you a better person and changes your perspective on certain things.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Ni%C3%B1o%E2%80%93Southern_O...
Interesting! I am thereby highly confused as to how Kickstarter is legal (in addition to how it satisfies the requirements of credit card companies, which state that you cannot capture funds until you ship the product someone ordered).
There is no minimum wage in Germany.
Well, now I took a closer look I'm seeing private photos switching back and forth. I'm waiting for a friend to confirm, but I see photos I posted to closed groups that have no relevance to others out of context. I'm waiting for a friend to tell me what he sees.
I'm curious about 2012-08 and 2012-11. Pet feature, hackathon, large release with hotfixes?
The short answer is: it's complicated. I suspect a lot of economic turmoil, particularly in lower wage countries, as manufacturing would probably move back closer to the richer markets. Of course, at some point, the labour supply will run thin, wages will rise, and some outsourcing might make sense again. It might be very good for Europe and North America, but perhaps less good for developing markets. As another commenter said, however, prices might rise triggering spiralling inflation until the point is reached where things stabilise again . . . where the $7 minimum wage has been devalued to $1 or $2 or whatever the equivalent wage is currently in China.

The experiment on a small scale makes some interesting reading here:

http://www.acton.org/pub/commentary/2011/07/06/minimum-wage-...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/congress-oks-american-samoa-mi...
you could argue chromium is better for those same reasons ;)
spotify is a good example of where this works well.
From seeing your situation, i have some suggestions:

first thing. move closer to work, and you'd have saved 15 hrs to put into your project. from what you say, it's right in the face. trying to save few $100's in rent by wasting the time on commute is the worst trade off you are making right now. If you think spending few $100s extra on a place closer to work should be minimal compared to what you think your project is worth. If you think otherwise, i'm not sure how much important this project is to you.

second thing. don't speculate how much responsibility you might have. Don't promise on taking responsibility from your manager only to do what you don't enjoy as much; only take what you can at the current work pace. if you are not trying to climb up the corporate ladder, why take more than necessary responsibilities and make your life harder? be an mediocre employee at a corporate entity. Produce 8hrs worth of deliverables every day, be present, and contribute to the job in those 8 hrs, no more. that should work for most corporations.
almost all of it, yes. But if, for instance, your project is something that actually requires a $50,000 expenditure, and you put in the last $5000, then you now have a commitment to deliver your $50,000 project and only $45,000 to do it with. For some people that would not be a problem at all, they have that much spare cash. For others this would mean they need to go and fundraise an extra $5000 outside of Kickstarter.
On second thought, it would be better if you hired a temp to do the above after they signed a waiver taking all responsibility for their safety and legal risk, then writing off the lawyer's bill for writing up the contract as a business expense.
I second this recommendation. I've used a number of services. AWS is great for testing. Rackspace is fine too. However, for my everyday usage, Linode is wonderful and pleasant to use.
There's also a book in a similar vein called "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" [1]. Fairly good read.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_and_Dimed
"That's a real choice, and it's not easily legislated into oblivion."

It might kill the economy or grow a black market, but it is easily legislated into oblivion. The thing is: legislation can decrease $X and/or increase $Y. Put a $1000 a barrel tax on oil, and proportionally on other sources of energy, and abolish income taxes and you will find that people are willing to pay close to $Z for manual labour.

Yes, that is exaggeration, but any increase of the cost of capital relative to that of manual labour will have some effect. It will either put companies out of business or it will create manual labour jobs.

Problem is that this requires international cooperation or unilateral restrictions on trade (import bans or high import tariffs)
scriptsharp: I saw it used/had to help maintain for a rather big project...never again... :(
This worries me. Imagine some fake code like this:

function f(x, y) {
switch(x) {
case 1: goto a;
case 2: goto b;
case 3: goto c;
}

a: do_foo(y); return;
b: do_bar(y); return;
c: do_other_stuff(y); return;
}

Calls to it would look like f(1), f(2, "cat"), f(3, "dog"). It's horrible, but at least you see the first arg changing to get some idea of what's going on.

This yield thing makes it possible to call the same function with the same arguments and get completely different behavior depending on how far along it's managed to get.

In that situation, f("cat") != f("cat") != f("cat"), and that just seems scary to me.

(BTW, I am aware that JS doesn't do goto. But this basically adds it in, kinda-sorta.)

Like so many things, I'm sure it can be used for great evil or great justice, but I don't have a whole lot of faith in people to do the right thing with it.
One of the frustrating things for those of us who want to provide a way to limit access to undesirable content for minors is that Google presents the image search in a very opaque way.

For example, say that I want to protect a junior school and I know that I want to block everything from pornhub. Google Images (and Video thumbnails) will not display the source of the images in the code. So must I therefore block all image search? And because image search is a URL off the main Google search (rather than images.google.tld), I need to block SSL access to Google search too?

It's great that Google is providing the option to allow people to control the content they get, but it still has a long way to go.
It is not quite a genetic algorithm: there is no population of individuals s which get mated and possibly mutated. It's more of a dynamic programming polygon match. Still, the result is impressive and amusing.
Science as a Strategy (by LinkedIn CIO, Daniel Tunkelang)
I'm guessing there's a flag to get that printout, mind sharing?
The economies of most developing nations would be crippled. Cheap labor is a major export. Once the labor is just as cheap as in developed countries, there's no need to incur the overhead of coordinating production over long distances, so the production of many goods and services would move back to developed countries.

Prices of goods that are currently produced using cheap labor would increase dramatically. The current living wage in developed countries would no longer suffice.

Such a policy would be bad for pretty much everyone, and devastating for the people the policy is ostensibly benefits.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was legal in the same way AirBnB is legal.
Well, true.

But hence the notion of not being a founder CEO. Let someone else take the reigns and you do whatever you want to do.

Though there exists a lot of potential of messiness in this.
Refactorings to help make our codebase less of a giant hairball and more of a DAG. Big project that a lot of people helped out on and that I cared about a lot. Also it was relatively easy for me to pitch in cause most of the work was tedious but uncomplicated.
I'm glad javascript people are excited about generators, but I must warn - generators are not a replacement for real coroutines.

Most importantly - generators don't compose.

(I'm talking about python-style generators, the type of generators javascript adapted.)

To give you an idea of what I mean:

second_sound = coroutine(function() {
yield;
console.log('Tick!');
yield;
console.log('Tock!');
});

hour_sound = coroutine(function() {
yield second_sound();
console.log('Ding dong!')
});

It's pretty obvious what programmer wants to achieve. But with generators you can't call "yield" from deeper-level function - generators are one-level-deep. The only way to compose is to 'yield' a new (deeper) generator. At this point, the caller of hour_sound() needs to understand what to do if the callee returns a generator, instead of 'null' or a valid value. And it needs to run this "deep" generator before doing 'send' on the hour_sound again.

This is just the beginning of the mess. Errors get very hard to track as tracebacks get completely unreadable. It's not easy to decide what to do when one of the nested generators throws an exception.

Python frameworks went through this long time ago, see here (look especially for the "yield" keyword): http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/gen.html

Here's a bit of the underlying logic of this "simple" "coroutine-programming-syle" layer of tornadoweb:
http://www.tornadoweb.org/documentation/_modules/tornado/gen...

And here's more!
https://github.com/facebook/tornado/blob/master/tornado/gen....

All this magic is heavily based on the way python exceptions are integrated with generators, for example one can try to catch "StopIteration" to do a cleanup within generator. I doubt this is possible in javascript as the exceptions mechanism is much less mature.

Edit: Don't get me wrong - I love generators! But one-level-deep generators are not coroutines with stack that can be "blocked" from any deeper function.
PSA: It's available on Netflix.
It all starts with a silly, little thing.
git log --author harryh --format="%ci" | cut -f1-2 -d- | uniq -c | tail -r

(then I added in the 0 months manually)

Learned this just now via twitter btw: https://twitter.com/harryh/status/279010454376960000
The Minecraft launcher also relies on tumblr to serve the landing page, a couple of million players will be seeing this: http://i.imgur.com/Zft71.png
Google's New Exquisite Forest - Collaborative Art Project
18 Ways To Turn Your iPhone/iPad Into Gaming Devices
The inlet and outlet direction, and it's size. The GE ones are roughly 6cm x 6 cm. These murata ones are 2cm by 2cm.

http://www.digikey.ca/product-search/en?FV=fff40012,fff80051...

Damn, I think I found myself a christmas present. Pity it's so small though. I'll have to look at some numbers and see if it's good enough to cool a desktop's cpu heat sink.
Afaict, this PDF makes a "correlation=causation" assertion, and doesn't even attempt to account for any other variables of the past 40 years, implicitly attributing all employment variation from 1970s to the present on minimum wage levels...

One of these studies might be a better starting point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_wage#Empirical_studies
I used to believe in the law of supply and demand when applied to labour. Since coming to Australia, where the minimum wage is $14 and change (it varies by region . . . I am not an expert), however, my opinion has changed somewhat. Fast food is a bit more expensive, though not as much as you might expect. The difference, however, is that the minimum wage teenagers are generally working their asses off and earning their pay. At an equivalent place in the U.S. or Canada, the places seem to have 3 or 4 people standing around scratching themselves for every one that is sort of working.

I can't offer any deep analysis, but perhaps, with higher wages, employers are more careful with their hiring decisions and with their use of labour (or perhaps, they can simply attract better workers). Perhaps, also, the workers value their jobs more as the jobs are literally worth more.
Seeing as they have engineers deploying code directly into production with `vim`, a fundamental screwup was inevitable.
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In creating this project, he agreed to the Terms of Use and it's within the folks' rights to request refunds at this point. http://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter%20basics#Acc...

I'm not a backer, just sympathetic to the situation on both sides, but an obligation is just that.
Not sure it applies everywhere, but non-immigrants receiving under the table pay would dwarf the number of immigrants doing the same in New Zealand.
Is there a short explanation of what's happened? I haven't heard of all this.
If the line "in order to live at home" means "live with my parents rent free", you can't do that without their support. If that is the current plan, consider it busted and come up with something else. If, instead, you mean you have six months savings and plan to "work from home" and that home is your own home, you do what makes sense to you and try to not talk too much about it with the parents.
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What are your calculations? Medicare & Social Security should be 7.65%, federal income tax should be 10%, of which about half should fall under the standard deduction (assuming they're working about 30 hours a week). What's the rest?
Please share your thoughts. This will be an open source project (it's based on Linux and openwebos) so your early input is welcome.
Just because startups as businesses generally fail, doesn't mean projects (which is more what Kickstarter launches) must generally fail. The metrics are totally different. While a startup needs traction, growth, and all those other difficult things, a project faces much more concrete objectives.

Honestly, if the creator is realistic with expectations, goals, and required funding, it seems to me most every project on Kickstarter ought to be able to complete and thereby succeed. Not many are truly speculative "This could turn out to be impossible" sort of affairs.
No direct statutory universal minimum wage. But sector-by-sector minimum wages are set by collective bargaining agreements. In Germany in particular, 70% of the labor force are covered by them.

I admit to not knowing the full details of how it works in Germany--not many good sources on the Internet immediately apparent, so I'd be plenty eager to hear if I'm misunderstanding how it works.
I wrote my own a long time ago in C (inspired by Roger) to create a Christmas postcard: http://www.mostlymaths.net/2010/04/approximating-images-with...
I run my own start-up and I have to do everything. I am the sole employee. Some days I wear my designer hat, others its server config, and others it's customer service. Is it a bit crazy? Sure, but I really enjoy what I do.

I don't have meetings. I don't go to conferences. I don't pitch my company to VCs. I don't try to raise money. I don't care what other companies are doing. I don't try to use the latest tech because I'm expected to.

LAMP is fine.

I concentrate on building the product, satisfying my customers, and increasing my revenue. Everything else is bullshit.

The founder should be able to do everything. Being a developer is one of those things.
That is great art! Really makes you think
This is a great example of why Kickstarter should automate the production/fulfillment of these basic, common rewards. Too many organizers of Kickstarter projects list t-shirts, stickers, etc. in the rewards without even bothering to price the production out (or think about the amount of logistics required to fulfill hundreds to thousands of individual items).

Disclaimer: I work for Teespring, and pretty much all we do is automate this sort of thing (so I may be biased).
Could you expand on that please? Surely there is some kind of protection against 20 hour shifts for $20? How are workers protected?
> I was lucky. Relatively rich parents, we could move into a good school district, I got to go to a good university, not really worry about money, and now I work in the software industry which is booming. But a huge part of that I owe to circumstance - I could study in school, never hungry, never worried about paying rent.

But there are also plenty of counterexamples of people who didn't have rich parents, didn't live in good school districts, and did it on their own. I know a person just like that, and she paid for school on her own working fast food shifts at night and full time in the summer, and now has a great job in biotech. $anecdote++;

> you can't see first hand that education really gets you anything.

I don't see that education really does get you anything except a stifled sense of creativity, decreased curiosity, and crushing debt. See: the current college-grad crisis.

"Education" in a modern, western sense is a red herring. Being a lifelong learner, being always curious, and having the desire to do something useful with your life -- if you have these qualities you'll do just fine.
If you want these JavaScript 1.7 features on the server side, you can use RingoJS (http://ringojs.org/), which has supported 1.7 since 2008 or so (and now sports some 1.8 features) ... It's a much less known alternative for Node.js, better in several ways IMHO (e.g. multithreading).
Yes. Yes you did. Dubious whether to call it 'modern' however. That term in the art world is super tricky. I might fall to contemporary - but that also brings it's difficulties. If you want to be really wiley, you could call it post-genre :)
Coda and Sandboxing
Hmm. I'm not following the logic, there. If that were true, wouldn't every company have their wages set to the minimum wage right now?
It's a wonderful piece. One wonders if the experience of the machine would change much if it awarded 6 pennies a second, though. The purpose of the performance is that the labor is soul-crushingly pointless, right? And that anyone who turns the crank is seen as engaged in soul-crushingly pointless work, right? Those both strike me as true even if you're using my 1% Machine.
Reminds me a bit of "staged authenticity" in tourism studies which I've been thinking about lately. When we see the fake version of something as the real version, whether because we don't care about its blatant falsity or because we're not competent enough to authenticate its veracity.

http://hotelmule.com/wiki/Staged-authenticity
If they are not profitable, it means that the downtime is actually improving their financials...;)
...and declare bankruptcy before actually paying the temp, then pull all the money from their retirement fund to pay your own bonus.