skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is true that credit is a lot easier to come by, and given American's trade deficit/capital account surplus, a lot more money across the world is flowing into the US, like crack into a poor neighborhood, obviously increasing borrowing above what it would have been in the 70s. I'm not sure how to square this, it pollutes the data.

It does seem to me however, that given the loss of manufacturing jobs, and the increase in low end retail / service jobs, that there has been downward pressure on wages.
That's just not true. In fact, I wouldn't agree with a single statement you just made. An Apogee mic is good but there's a reason he used a $3500 mic + $20,000 more in gear. For you to say that a $200 mic would have achieved the same results is just utter crap. If that was the case, no one would use a professional studio and, instead, would buy said $200 MiC and be done with it.

And wait - you think that his fans, the ones paying $0.99 for the song, are going to pay $40,000 for his gear? Sheesh - I have to believe that you're just talking to hear yourself talk at that point.

The resell value on mics is no different than anything else except in one regard: it's much, much harder to tell fakes in mics, and it's much harder to detect problems in mics than it is with other gear. With a guitar, it's easy - does it play well, stay in tune, feel good, and have no scratchy pots? Then it's good. With an amp, does it sound good? Is it loud? Any scratchy pots? When you tap the tubes, are any microphonic? But with a mic - it's much trickier. You pretty much have to send it to the manufacturer for them to tell you whether it is "right".

That being said, buying and selling used microphones is the way to go for most hobbyists. You can buy said Neumann U87 for $2500 used thus potentially saving $1000. As long as it doesn't need to be reconditioned, you've done well.
Regardless of raw profit, Amazon will remain a viable business for as long as there are products that people want. ANY products. Apple will remain a viable business only as long as they create NEW products that people want.
That phoronix missive was the stupidest post I have read in a long time.
$700/hr for legal advice vs. $100/hr for a top software engineer – why?
I'm currently working with a really great iOS developer. He is charging me $100/hr, which seems like a lot, but the hours he quoted for the full project were very reasonable. However, need some contractual work for the same company and have a friend who is a partner at a major law firm in the Valley & he charges close to $700/hr. He is very bright and hard working, but can anything justify $700/hr. What am I missing?
It's "Drake" but if you watch the video the "rake" is silent making it just "D". :P
Taking off my programmer hat, and putting on my "I just want to get data moved along" hat - drake is much more readable than this.

The ideas behind redo are brilliant, but the way to express them in this particular implementation is not so fun.
From what I understand (as a fellow fascinated layman) is that String Theory is still the dominant StandardModel++ theory in academia but there are a few who are being more vocal about its validity.

Peter Woit is a notable skeptic of the viability of String Theory and has a blog which contains links to a number of interesting physics blogs.
http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/
It reduces corporate profit so yes it's Aaron Swartz / terrorist illegal.
Thinking about code in terms of "good" and "bad" is not very useful. Don't worry about what developers on the internet think about the quality of your code unless they offer specific suggestions in a constructive and instructive manner. If someone offers specific and thoughtful suggestions or criticism, learn everything you can from them.
Android ported to Windows kernel
just shut up man and leave this for a while.
I had submitted a link to a story about this tweet:

http://brianshall.com/blog/does-morgan-missen-have-thing-rea...

Since I had no idea who this person was. Some sort of self promoting recruiter.
Even though Sorkin's rapid-fire walk-n-talk idiom is approaching self-parody, for some reason I still like it – maybe because it exercises the language center of my brain more than most passive-viewing does. Still, I expect to go see this and cringe as these actors struggle to casually drop jargon in a way that sounds natural. Our demographic is probably going to feel that Woz was given the worst rendering in that respect, because Jobs probably has minimal jargon written into his lines. That shows up in this clip, in my opinion.

I bet both characters will work well when viewed by non-techies, though.
> The entirety of my reply was a tutorial on high school level reading comprehension and a snide remark about HN (well, and a question about you)

Maybe before you spend a lot of time complaining about how other people comment, you should start by focusing on making a positive contribution yourself.
Hi Ben, I hope your well. Ideally we would like manufacturers to setup their own accounts and approve their own lib's, that would be a big win for users. Basically i think this problem has slipped between the cracks, the semi co's, engineers, EMS houses, EDA vendors etc all palm it off to each other!
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> 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)?

If I routinely experienced delays of two hours with Gmail, I would find it undrinkable. For instance, I arrange to meet people using Gmail. Sometimes for important events. E.g., my girlfriend tells me at what time I should come over, and she often gives me little notice. Or we'll arrange when and where to me for a concert shortly before the event.

I've been using email for this purpose for my entire adult life, and it has almost always worked for this purpose just fine.

Since I don't typically experience the kind of delays mentioned by the OP, I am happy with Gmail. If I did experience them, I would be as unhappy with Gmail as the OP.
Feeding your Curiosity
Discussion on reddit makes it sound very interesting: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1773hv/android_403_...
> ...on an island near Sault ste. Marie

Man, I feel cold just thinking about it! (Here's the current forecast: http://ca.weather.yahoo.com/canada/ontario/sault-ste.-marie-...)

As a Canadian transplant to Melbourne I laugh when the Aussies complain how cold it is here in winter.
It's not much different in the USA, at least when it comes to the H1B > Green Card > Citizenship route. I've gone through two H1B applications (first time and renewal) and one Green Card application, and every single time the USCIS put me and my company through the RFE (request for evidence) process, where they ask for additional evidence that I am qualified to work at my position and that the company did not prefer me over American applicants. Which meant even more overhead for company lawyers and HR people, plus more legal fees. I managed to get my H1B renewed, still waiting on the Green Card decision (if it gets approved I have to wait another 5-6 years before I actually get it).

And note that I've been wanting to start my own business all this time, but I can't. In fact, it would be tremendously difficult for me to switch jobs. Which makes me an indentured servant of this company until I get my green card and therefore my freedom to set my own course.
But the transition between states in Monopoly depends not only on dice, but also upon the configuration of Chance and Community Chest cards, which has a much larger state space. Besides this, if you roll doubles three times, you go to Jail, which increases the state space more. For more:

http://www.tkcs-collins.com/truman/monopoly/monopoly.shtml
https://github.com/harthur/replace
> get it before it decays

A muon has a mean lifetime of 2.2 microseconds (2.2 * 10^−6 seconds). Hurry, if you blink you'll miss it two hundred thousand times over.
They are links, meant to be shared, maybe published, it depends on your users behavior, not what you want them to do.

Even if they were only supposed to be private, what if my dad wants to find that Steve Jobs Bio again 1 month from now.
Why are you limiting this to iPhones?
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I don't understand, not the critics, not the project.

Why insult something that someone obviously put a lot of care into?

The code is nicely formatted and clear. I can see how it works. Props to harthur for making something easy to read and then sharing it on Github. Both readable code and sharing should be encouraged.

I don't really get why someone would want to implement text processing utilities in node.js. It seems to be a bit heavy on the overhead.

Might someone re-implement harthur's user interface (which a bunch of people seem to like) in c, and submit it to the GNU Coreutils project?
I think that one of many problems with our industry is that even many good engineers can't really tell good code from bad. (Bad engineers are already hopeless.) That's why there are so many flamewars over cosmetic bullshit like tabs-vs.-spaces. Most code flamewars are over style, not substance. But it's substance (overuse of inheritance, lack of interface integrity, inappropriate technical choices) that kills projects.
US citizen living in Victoria here -- the west coast of Canada is pretty fantastic in many ways, but the availability of quality tech jobs takes a sharp nosedive once you leave Toronto, as far as I've been able to tell. It could be interesting if Startup Visa immigrants chose to move this direction (not only for "quality of life" reasons but also to be geographically closer to Seattle/Portland/SanFran), but I wouldn't surprised in the least if they flock to Toronto because everyone wants to belong to the larger tech scene to attract talent and connections.
http://code.google.com/p/endgames-stuff

Where I store little throwaways. Metscrape2 is probably the most interesting.
Belkin buys Linksys home router business from Cisco
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This has been a pretty big deal for a while now -- its a huge, unexplained effect that ever theoretical physicist in a remotely related field will have poked at. (And the expected result is actually pretty easy to calculate, as far as anything in QED is.)

A lot of folk were betting on some sort of experimental error (just as ended up happening with the superluminal neutrinos), so if they've managed to replicate the result with more in depth experiments, that's kind of important.
FYI Chatr is a Rogers subsidiary. They created it specifically to compete[1] with the other cheap services like Wind and Mobilicity. This is why your iPhone works, because it's on the same Rogers network.

[1] Some argue that the only reason they created Chatr was to drive the smaller guys out of the market.
Yeah, I get that, but clearly OP has taken liberties here to correlate "Everyone on HN" and "Everyone on the gmane.org site". It's just silly to bring "us" into this argument. We have nothing to do with that site. If he/you/they/anyone argues otherwise, then the logical counter argument is "So I'm supposed to police every internet fight about everything I like or identify with now?" It's just fallacy to think that this is anyone's fault other than the people involved.
J.J. Abrams To Direct New 'Star Wars' Movie
If you sufficiently internalize that there is another human being at the other end of the line, basic humanity should lead toward communication with that in mind.

"Sufficiently internaliz[ing]" the emotions of another human being may be difficult or impossible for many who are drawn to the computer field due to the way their brains are wired, either due to childhood bullying stunting their empathic development, or to things like autism spectrum disorders.

For people in that situation, suggesting a pragmatic mental model may be more helpful than saying, "You're a jerk, and you're wrong," which might come across as like saying to a deaf person, "You never listen, and you're wrong."
I pull people up for similar things on here, if you're going to call something out explain why you think it's bad. You don't need to provide a rewrite to it, you just need to not drive by snark it.
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This news worthy?
If you want to write shell scripts that are portable to places without GNU or other reasonably featured tools, you'll have to be careful.

http://www.gnu.org/software/autoconf//manual/autoconf-2.69/h...
This is another good reason to build web/mobile-web/phonegap first if your product can be done (and almost everything can) with these technologies.

Not stirring the native/web pot, but web allows quicker iterations, no app store approval proceses, etc. etc.

At an introduction, does every investor even want to install another app? Do they install the app of every business that contacts them? I doubt it.

Lower the barrier to entry. I just built a demo app for a start-up who is looking for investment, and we had both camera/photo and location services in the browser without even needing phonegap. It's been viewed on iPhone, Android on both phones and tablets.
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Take a look at Buck Pucks or one of the many similar easy to use drivers whose names escape me at the moment.
Why should they have such restrictive control over the device in the first place?

After a successful contract completion, the device should be the end-users 100%, but it seems like the telecom's are futilely fighting to control the balance of power by "dumbing down" the absolute potential of the devices they release.

This is truly scary.
I charge $100/hr and I'm nowhere near a top developer. I'm sure the top developers are charging a lot more
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None of it is easy. I haven't read this particular paper, but I have worked on similar experiments. First, you have to create muons and then isolate them in the particle beam and this costs quite some money (typically fire accelerated protons at a target and allow the pions and other decay products to be dumped in some dumb absorber that the muons pass through). Then you have to capture the muons into orbits around protons that come from hydrogen that needs to be disassociated and ionised. Then you have to pulse the hydrogen with a laser and excite the muon into a new energy state and accurately measure the energy of the photons that come off in the decay. You almost certainly need subnanosecond accuracy in your timing at this point. Of course, you can never be absolutely certain what you're measuring in any particular event so you sum over millions of events and average. And you have to simulate the whole thing (typically using a C++ framework called GEANT running on massive processor farms analysed with a horror-show of an analysis toolkit called ROOT) to see what could go wrong and determine the possible sources of error and uncertainty in your measurement.

To get the money to do this, you have to apply for government grants that may take up to a year to get approved. And no government wants to fund it so you need an 'in' with the lab, because they'll be the ones that sponsor your application for it to have a chance of success, and you'll need to know people from a whole load of other countries to collaborate with and prove your bona fides. And the people writing all these grant applications and doing most of the middle management are distracted by teaching literally hundreds of students every week during term time, so they can't even work full-time on it.

There are other experimental ways of doing this (e.g. measure correlated form factors and parton distribution functions from elastic scattering and extrapolate to zero momentum transfer), but they're all harder. They'll probably be done within the next 30 years. Probably. This particular effort is likely the work of 30-50 PhDs working for five or more years (at 50% of the salary they'd earn working for commercial companies), discounting any of the commercially available technology like electronics developed by CAEN or detector components developed by the likes of ElJen or Hamamatsu. And I would be surprised if they didn't mint another 10-15 PhDs during the effort. And I haven't covered the highly trained technicians and electronic engineers that are usually needed to build a lot of the custom experimental equipment.
Luckily, Cramer wasn't giving an apology. That post was not apologetic because it was an explanation of a single tweet. If you keep shitting comments that don't reflect the reality of the situation, that makes you the asshole.
If you do an A/B test and get a result that leans one way but is statistically insignificant, then it seems to me you might as well just go with that answer. No, you don't have good reason to believe that it's better than the alternative, but you do have good reason to believe that the choice is harmless.
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A failure of a free market for legal services. Anyone can become a professional ios developer, there is free entry/exit in this market. The ABA artificially limits the number of potential lawyers with the Bar and requiring you go to an accredited school.[1] An intelligent individual cannot educate themselves in the legal field in their spare time and get to the point where they can hang their own shingle in the same manner an ios developer can. The number of potential lawyers is further reduced by the patent bar as well and states that do not honor out of state lawyers.

[1] With the exception of a few states where one can still "read law" under a judge or attorney and take the bar.
Cool idea, but I tend to think "real" hustlers aren't the ones sitting around looking for products to hawk.

Maybe focus this a bit more and turn it into a course teaching hustlers how to be growth hackers?
Along those lines, smaller versions of the same species live longer than large versions. Dogs as you point out, but also cats, and humans. Look at mortality rates for 7 footers as a good example.
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This was an unfriendly comment. People here obviously think I'm pretty snarky and a bit of an asshole and I'm fine with that, but I don't generally write comments singling people who disagree with me out by name and demanding that some circumstance of their career or status or upbringing requires them to agree with me at their own moral peril. I wish you could just disagree with me objectively.

Calling arguments I've made "nonsense" and "ignorance" doesn't make your argument stronger. It makes you sound emotional. That can be an effective card to play if you think your emotions are going to cow your opponent into shutting up. Is that what you're trying to do?

Moving on, you haven't addressed my point at all. URLs are human readable. We test a couple hundred web applications in any given year. How many ridiculous URLs do you think I've seen? I provided specific examples: human-readable URLs that human-readably gave up whole filesystems. Human-readable URLs that human-readably gave up SQL queries. Human-readable URLs that human-readably gave up private messages.

To follow your logic to its reasonable conclusion, all those vulnerable URLs were open season for Internet attacker^H^H^H^H^H^H^Husers; shame on those companies for over-exposing resources in URLs and then expecting the legal system to clean up after them! If that's what you believe, fine, but you're arguing for the decriminalization of a whole lot of very damaging attacks. And to what end? I guess my bill rate would go way up when people realized they had even less recourse against exploitation of bugs in their system.

Meanwhile, you've followed my logic to an improper conclusion. As Rayiner has tried to explain on numerous threads, the legal system is not a programming environment that evaluates objectively observable facts and spits out conclusions based solely on them. Crimes are (i) an intent to break the law and (ii) actions in furtherance of that attempt. It is not illegal to "ask for the next book in a series". But if an abortion clinic used a case management application with a bug that disclosed --- via human-readable URL --- the identities of all its patients, it absolutely should be a crime to use those URLs to dump confidential patient information to Pastebin.

None of this means I think Aurenheimer deserves prison time for getting email addresses from AT&T. He was charged with identity theft, in part (I think) because the CFAA has a badly written 1-up mushroom clause that says computer fraud is extra bad when charged alongside another felony. The idea that email addresses of iPad subscribers constitute "identities" is ludicrous.
Another words, self funded.
I understand that, but by bundling the phone with the plan and making impossible to distinguish what you are paying for the phone and what you are paying to make calls, to effectively compare two offers, or even to purchase the service without the device, they limit competition.

This is bad for consumers.
no, the GPL is mainly motivated and designed to encourage openness and collaboration among authors. It removes authority: if you wish to use the code, do whatever you want with it, as long as you share the changes with the rest of the people that are interested in it.
The really interesting thing to me is what (I assume was) one of IBM's biggest customers -- Germany -- for its punch card/punch card machine business was doing with those punch cards.
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Because software people don't ask for more.

developer auction offers I'm getting is 85k to 130k so far, for someone with close to 10 year experience in the valley! wtf
This blog makes an extremely good point. The industry we work in is very competitive and it's easy to get into the habit of making snarky comments about other people's code, even if you're actually not a jerk in real life. It's always good to remember that you should avoid doing this as often as possible.
The reason is that statistics is done with numbers. I do not know how to take a statement like "A is at least as good as B" and tell you the probability that after 15 coin flips, A is 3 ahead of B. I do know how to do that calculation under the assumption that they are exactly equal. Or under the assumption that A comes up 51% of the time, B 49% of the time.

The point of the null hypothesis is that it is an absolute worst case. So whatever the real difference, it can't be harder to detect than the null hypothesis. Therefore if we make very few mistakes on the null hypothesis, then we're confident that we'll make very few mistakes, no matter what.

And finally you're right that going with the green button is better than just tossing up your hands. But how to decide how much better is a surprisingly complicated question, and there is no simple answer about how to quantify it. (Remember, statistics has to be done with numbers, so quantifying the answer matters.)