skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So one point they make is workers are paying more to their HMOs than ever, so the % of fringe benefits to wages has increased. This is proof against a stagnant middle class?

No, the point is that compensation/worker is up, but wages/worker is down, implying that non-wage compensation/worker is up.

Then that a one income household can not cut it any more is mentioned.

Define "cut it". If "cut it" means "purchase the same basket of goods and services that the typical family had in 1970", they almost certainly can.
True, but I wouldn't call my product 'Queen', 'Cream', 'Journey', or another noun that could be confused with someone or something famous. This distracts from the conversation of the product, so perhaps I shouldn't have brought it up.
Will probably be popular among a subset of the twitter crowd but can't see non-twittery people using it
Can you please justify how Gmail, an Email client used by probably millions of users suddenly turns out 'un-drinkable' to the author (and to you)?

Can you send E-mails? Yes.

Can you receive E-mails? Yes.

Can you forward E-mails? Yes.

(^Note: This is a paid feature on other popular clients)

Can you read all the E-mails you've sent and received? Yes.

Are you paying for it? No.

So, how does this become 'un-drinkable'? Your e-mail was delivered despite the delay. It would be fair to call it undrinkable if your email wasn't delivered. AFAIK No one promised you they would deliver it within 'x' minutes.

For heaven's sake, it's a bug. People make mistakes, Softwares contain bugs, I'm sure with all your experience put together, you know this better than me. Why make such a huge fuss out of this? How does such a minor problem affecting only a fraction of Gmail users suddenly become Gmail's Second biggest problem?
We had a perfect meal at Christina's, and perfectly paired with wine. I really hope this takes off - we also loved http://colectivofelix.com, it was more homely in feel and as it was smaller we were able to talk to the other guests, making for a great evening together. If this could become the airbnb of food, count me in as a life-time subscriber.
Android app launching made gorgeous
Your patience is incredible.
That's assuming your time is worth nothing. Also, there's much more to reliability than having servers in more than one location.
This is in fact exactly why I use Bitbucket private repos.
WSJ is doubling down on the crazy talk. Here's their idea of a representative demographic: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732368960457822....
This is no typo. To date we have only booked 169 chef services. We are focused on delivering bookings for the chefs however due to the open nature of our platform we have no way of knowing how many bookings a chef actually receives as a benefit of being on ChefSurfing.com ( we link directly to their own external site if they have one ) and it is very likely that once a chef and customer have contact with each other they maintain this relationship without Chef Surfing being involved.

Some of the chefs we are close with have called us after working a job they received via Chef Surfing and told us about how the customer would like to do more business together and asked us "if that's ok". That's not just ok with us, it's our goal ( getting the chefs more work and higher pay ).
There are differences between BSD and GNU utilities that manifest a lot. ps uses different syntax. find has a different output style. grep doesn't support -P.
such particles must presumably be outside of the Standard Model

Yes, they are. With the detection of the Higgs we have now detected experimentally all of the Standard Model particles. Any new "very light force carriers" would definitely be outside of the Standard Model.
It is very encouraging that startups have been recognized as a viable route to do something in Canada.

I hope in time and with success the visa can be expanded to include the present reality in Canada that 98% of startups in Canada are self-funded and don't get or use VC input:

http://www.techvibes.com/blog/how-canadian-entrepreneurs-fin...

For the majority of the startup environment in Canada, this doesn't benefit them right away.

Also interesting -- Small businesses are 98% of businesses in Canada: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/smallbusiness/story/2011/10/...
Similar large scale public art projects have had significant economic impacts for their host cities; the Gates project in NYC (which was up for only 2 weeks, compared to 2 years for the Bay Lights), generated $254m in economic impact.

http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4...

Please consider supporting Bay Lights - its an amazing project .
I've worked on autonomous cars, and no, I am not a crank. I could go into technical reasons why this is nowhere near ready, but there is no need. The onus is on Google to prove that they have the technology (or that it will arrive soon), and proof has not been forthcoming. I'm not even claiming that Google is claiming that autonomous cars are almost here--I am saying that people should take their carefully controlled demos with a grain of salt.
Humbled by complexity and the best job on earth
wsj is own by Murdoc and anything that dude own seems to be fills with lies and bias. They got flak for it over in England, I believe.
Yeah, I have switched out SIM cards on my travels.

When I Had a locked phone, I would keep it on Airplane mode for the duration of my trip.
It wasn't the extreme right wing making that argument, it was the broad consensus of the economics profession and the 90's reform reflected that. Williams himself (the guy behind Shadowstats) claims that our inflation figures are the result of a conspiracy among the political class in both parties to deceive voters rather than being the fault of just right wingers. Personally I think he's a crank, so here's the BLS's rebuttal of his charges:

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/08/art1full.pdf
Things have gotten cheaper for rich people too. One would expect technological progress to make things cheaper over time--what does that have to do with income distribution within the country?

Nothing. But the article makes no attempt to address income inequality.

These are two different questions:

1. Has the middle class stagnated over the last n decades?

2. Has the middle class improved its share of national income over the last n decades?

In fact, it's possible to believe that income inequality is ultimately a good thing that improves the standard of living across all income brackets.

Edit: The short version of this argument: It's good to let some people get very rich creating the iPhone if the end result is that we all end up with iPhones.
> it's probably not going to happen without an alarm clock.

Not true. I've always been able to wake up pretty accurately without an alarm clock (not to the minute, but within 30min or so). It's just one of those things some people seem to be able to do, and others can't.

As a result, I've never been particularly dependent on alarm clocks, and use them more as a backup for important events than as my primary method of waking up...
Can you survive these killer SoundCloud tracks beats?
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My only point is that what's right for you isn't necessarily what's right for everyone.
This has a lot of potential as it is completely in line with the 'feel' of twitter- short and sweet. It also integrates well with twitter- 6 seconds is comparable to the time that it takes to read a tweet. It'll be cool to see what users do with this.
I thing everyone still says Zig with an American Z
You're right, he's talking about wages re: consumption, but as an attempt to address "progressive" concerns about wages re: income distribution. He's setting up a straw man and knocking it down.
Depends.

If a company really wants you, they'll be all over your references and have a formal offer to you within hours (<=72).

In normal situations, businesses small and large can take anywhere from a few days to months to a couple of years (yes, years; it has happened).

In your case, I hate to break it to you, but you should probably move on. If you haven't heard anything back from them, they probably aren't going to contact you. If you wish to ping them to inquire, feel free. But my guess is they've either don't need the position now, or found someone else (friend of a current employee or two).
get a few "life lines" set up ahead of time (like a CSS/design and front end programmer)

Nothing kills hackathons faster than being stuck on one teeny problem and watching the enthusiasm leave the room
They needed to use "Chutes and Ladders," which really does have a handful of states.
This is actually smart!
You're also missing T-Mobile's 30$ Unlimited data (5GB), unlimited text, 100 minutes plan.

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
Considering that fear does just that, this seems like a miserable existence.
Source code of C++ projects to be read by an average programmer
What are some small or medium C++ projects(some small games may be) whose source code an average programmer should read to improve his C++ design and programming skills?
The article mentions angel capital being a possible helper. Do you know how much needs to be raised?

Also - why the requirement on VC funds anyway? Shouldn't we be supporting bootstrapped entrepreneurs as well?
Mine adds a rolling animation and then settles on something random like: "I'm feeling confused" or "puzzled" or "playful". Each random word has a different set of results if you click it. Example "I'm feeling trendy" sends you to https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends

I am in the USA.
> Nothing. But the article makes no attempt to address income inequality.

Right, because that's a losing argument for him. But that's the concern of "progressives." He's using the classic tactic of pretending that the other side is arguing something different than they are, then attacking that argument.

> 1. Has the middle class stagnated over the last n decades?

What does "stagnated" mean? Humans think relatively, not in terms of absolutes. Has the middle class stagnated relative to the upper class? Yes, it has.
The conversation tennis would be fine if it wasn't so ridiculously inane.
It is a limited resource, but you are right about that there is no clear order.
> The U.S. and over 2'dozen of our allies' intelligence agencies believed that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons before the war started.

Yes, but not strongly enough to start a war over it until there was some other motivation.

Opinions aren't a binary thing. You can have 55% credence that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, but at that point it's not necessarily a good idea to start a war over it. If you have 95% credence it's a different story.
This can be considered independent of the fact that the income increases due to the gains in productivity (inflation-adjusted GDP/capita) largely accrued to the top earners, and not across the entire income spectrum.
The guy cites this Forbes article as motivation: "Getting a better GPA ... is the focus. It ...doesn’t lead to working effectively with others. ... Traditional education is concerned with staying in context ... . Innovation is ... about crossing boundaries, and digging deeper into problems and their solutions from a variety of angles." It continues in that vein for many sentences more.

It's no news for anyone who has done any amount of research in science or engineering that research is a team effort, that one has to work across subject boundaries, and that it isn't at all risk-free. That's why nowadays undergraduates are expected to work in research labs from the sophomore year onwards. It is impossible to get into any serious PhD program without research experience.

I'm not sure why the blog author quotes a Forbes article full of non-truths, but we wish that he gets his project off the ground, so that he can see what a university is really like.
actually the API is public and the file format is standards based, we just havent had time to document everything yet!

Agreed we need to do better with adding more parts, please free to help out haha.
What about something like Sphinx? It uses ReStructured text and a Makefile to control most of the stuff.
Since Shopify was our first integration, Shopify merchants are near and dear to our hearts. Thanks for being there for us Brian.
But not 3-clause BSD? I figure the reasoning behind the third clause is to cover the situation where you write FooLib and someone uses it, advertising, "The Crazy Super Cool App is the craziest and supercoolest app of them all because FooLib makes it so crazy and supercool!" If the CSCA turns out to be a stinking pile, you don't get the stigma.
"The gross numbers haven't increased"
Not only have inflation-adjusted hourly wages not increased with rising GDP, they've actually fallen.

"spending by households on many of modern life's 'basics'"
The article factors in auto payments as a basic, but not gas prices - which have risen for people since the 1950s. It does not factor in the increased amount of money going to their HMO (some of which is then sent as a dividend to GMO stockholders, there's a racket...) It also does not factor in that people have to spend more on their own training and college education just to make the same wages as someone without these things could make at a factory in 1950. You would be correct in saying food prices have fallen in the past 60 years, but their claims that the middle class now has more disposable income is false.

The fact which they can not deny is that inflation-adjusted hourly wages have fallen since the early 1970s. Many of the points they make are sophistic. They do make the point that commercial airplane travel has improved since the 1970s, but how often does the average middle class person use that? Most of the people I know who fly regularly are made to do so by their jobs and are usually unhappy having to spend so much time away from home in order to make a living.
That's Hungarian notation
I sure wherever you live you're shitting on the third world just as much as the US.
Facebook Blocks Yandex’s Social Search App From Accessing Its Data
The artist has 100% control for the first 2(?) years (and he has been vehemently anti-advertising - there have been numerous offers already). It will need to be reevaluated in 5 years when the bridge needs to be painted - as the lights will interfere with a new paint-job.
Exactly. Especially with respect to 'free trials.' If you provide a quality product, and don't employ sleazy business practices, customers will respect you.
I was with him until he said he'd didn't know what YAML was :(.
Fee Simple Android game to train your Brain
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15 minutes exercises a day will lead to remarkable results in a month. In one more month many will envy how easy you memorize big amount of data.
How to play:
Just press circle that just appeared. And that’s it. Easy? Primitive? Try it then tell.
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I've acquired small.cat. There's nothing on there yet since I need to comply with .cat rules but that should be much easier to say.
Oh, I do. I love getting a little bit of extra info and context before clicking on a URL. And as someone posted before, it also works really well in the Twitter Android client.
The Twitter snark isn't normal, it's an exceptional case.

No, this isn't true. It's completely normal. It's been normal since long before Twitter. In exactly the same way high school bullying is normal, this is most definitely (a) prevalent, and (b) a problem. But it won't change, because people tolerate it.

You want me to open up my personal projects? It's not going to happen. It won't happen because we live in an ecosystem where the top dog is the one who barks the loudest, not the one who's most productive. People pay attention to what other people say. And there is nothing anyone could say about personal projects except "Pretty cool" or "Damn, what a steaming pile". The first is nice, but I'll get by without it. The second serves only to lower me and my ideas. I don't want my capabilities (ideas) to be constrained by others' lack of imagination.
The old visa, which this replaced, was for the self funded startups.....

This one is for the VC...
That is true. I forgot the Degrassi connection.
Did you expect anything less from Rupert Murdoch? As soon as I saw the news of him buying the WSJ, I knew it was just a matter of time until it was filled with propaganda.
Go has always struck me as a "worse is better" take on Erlang, so that would definitely be an interesting opinion to hear.
"The Mac Pro should be the next Mac released"
Can I suggest not getting the geo info when using the site? It was confusing for me and several other people I've shown it to in the last minutes, as we get various cities with no entries, and it's not clear what cities/countries have actual chefs available. Once I selected Mexico for example, it was fine, but it's not clear where the service is actually available.
Yes. We had a huge increase in traffic today due to the Hacker News mention, so imports are taking much longer than normal. Rest assured we're up, we're processing data at a furious pace and you'll get an email when the data import is done. in the meantime, thanks for the patience.
I've been told before that most Americans have never been outside the country. I never realized "phone unlocking" would be a perspective that would be affected by this isolationism.
Ah, makes sense. Thank Eric!
I just gave the code a quick look and I find this `eval` usage not too cool:

https://github.com/harthur/replace/blob/master/replace.js#L4...

It relies on the fact that you can provide javascripts String#replace a "replace function" (1). The author just evals the contents of a command line provided file into a variable called `replaceFunc`.

Beside that, there's not a lot that can be pointed out as "bad", at least by just reading it lightly (5-10 mins).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/Referenc...
This is disingenuous. Progressives routinely frame the argument in zero-sum terms, as though 1) there is a pie; 2) the rich have taken a larger share of that pie; and 3) this means that the poor are getting less than they got before.

The argument this article makes is that the pie is getting bigger, so everyone's share is bigger. You might still think this is a bad thing, but you should at least understand the argument.
which chef did you use? what was it for? i'm looking through and this seems like it could be great for when a bunch of people come round and expect food... but the idea that you can order a week's meals for $15.000 is also tempting (we're going to gain weight...).
Also an excellent point, and possibly a concern... but some of this has been a conscious rebalancing of roles (for example, men doing more nonmarket work and women doing more market work) to optimize leisure time. Altogether, the story is complicated and top-level headlines from people with political agendas almost always mislead.
This entire forum exists for the purpose of sharing fact and opinion alike. If you don't want people to share opinions (or is it just the ones that don't align with your world view?), fine, but you don't need to be an ass about it.

Although part of me wonders if this is a joke, given the parallels to the situation at hand. Primarily, you clearly don't think all comments should be made public and felt the need to unhelpfully criticize mine. If so, well-played.
I'd still like to know how these jerks even came across Heather's code in the first place. I suppose I should be grateful for obscurity. I even have a command-line utility written in C to count from 1 to 10. (Well it does a little more than that, but that's the general idea.) I'd hate to hear what they think of it. I'm not really a C coder so I'm sure it's fairly ugly, and I suppose they'd say it "shouldn't exist at all." In fact I've got all kinds of silly/pointless projects stashed up there--even a few that I'd say shouldn't exist. Heaven forbid I ever become famous enough for people to take a look! These guys seem to have all the maturity of kids egging someone's house. Who asked for their opinion anyway?
Programming by Doing
T-mobile is a great choice if you've got a HSPA compatible device like a Galaxy Nexus--not LTE fast, but fast.
I'm not really sure if that answers your question though

I think GP was confused about the difference between the concept of piping and the concept of function composition. As noted by GGGP above, the concept of piping/composition is not only Unix pipes, but you keep arguing about that particular case of it instead of the general concept.
So a more or less a "random circumstance" is the reason the FSF should be changing it's principles?

I mean, there may be times when the FSF does stick foolishly to principles but the "because we've decided it's OK to be halfway open and accept putting copyright control in the hands of a random company, you should bend for us" argument does not seem compelling.

It sounds like the mom and kids dynamic "can't I break the rules this one time, [XXXX very 'just, reasonable' sounding excuse]". The reason you have blanket principles is that otherwise someone finds a single exception that sounds emotionally compelling, then the exception becomes the hole that more or less everyone just drives through and "inconvenient" principles go out the window.

Also, the article doesn't say anything one way or the other about releasing the library LGPL which would seem appropriate for a library which could then be used by a commercial product.
> "I want to go to Europe"

> You can't do that next week. Well, you can, but you won't be able to use your phone there without paying ridiculous roaming and data charges.

Would it be legal for me to unlock the phone once I land in Europe? Would it also be legal for me to return to the U.S. with said phone that I unlocked over seas?
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I think this is a matter of poor critism. There is a strong suspicion that the code isn't all that useful. It ignores the tools that are available. Its great that the person wrote it, but there are certainly better options out there. Oh well.. good on them for releasing it. Its a learning experience.

On the otherhand I think this is stating to reveal the less than stellar aspect of open community based/social projects. Not everyone agrees with you, and/or has the same opinions as you. Also, its not all free love and drugs as it was promoted to be.
Use https://www.google.com/?pws=0 to see a non-personalized version of its home page. The hover then works for me in Germany.
> He cares about fast delivery.

Then he can find a better solution than email. Make a phone call and upload a file via sftp to a remote server. That's how I do deployments here at Insurasoft™.
Great suggestion, thank you Marquis!
To everyone in California, we do have a few chefs signed up in San Francisco [1] and Oakland [2] although we've only just started to promote the site in the USA.

[1] https://chefsurfing.com/en/chefs/united-states-of-america/ca...
[2] https://chefsurfing.com/en/chefs/united-states-of-america/ca...
Where does this idea that income inequality indicates the downfall of a civilisation come from? It doesn't seem to be historically true, given the vast income inequality in, say, Regency England, or pretty much any part of classical Roman history after the early Republic, or, hell, pretty much any civilisation ever that lasted any amount of time had some kind of aristocracy with all the inequality that entails...