skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree 100% this whole skeuo vs mini is a scam.

We need both where it is appropriate and think about the user first that's what design is about, and not just throw designs because they are trendy , what used to be trendy always sucks in the future.

Let's take at ReadWrite , TNW , Mashable new designs. They are flat , boring , with huge ugly flat color blocks that may look good on ipad or whatever , but not on my pc, frankly i ended ud reading only the register which still looks like a real online magazine to me. Iguess the others tried to appify their blog like Qwartz , except how much people read Qwartz ? I have a tiny 13'' screen i want as much infos as possible , not negative spaces all over the place.

Ask developpers about the latest Visual Studio version too, i'll guess used to it probably but how does it make that software look better? a little of relief would add to usability,now it feels like windows 3.1 or something, with ugly colors.
The questions are: prosperous for whom, and in what sense of the word?

1950 was "better" in that it was both more egalitarian (for whom) and also more secure (which, I should note, made it inherently more egalitarian). Things like the GI Bill and post-war reconstruction made Major Life Purchases like housing, infrastructure, and education very affordable for large masses of the population. Production booms, government income-support programs, and unionization made incomes more secure (even when employment was culturally and personally repressive and conformist), allowing families to reinvest in building private savings. Employer-sponsored pension plans made retirement a real possibility and Social Security a fall-back. One spouse was expected to work, and the other spouse's labor was held in reserve for emergencies.

Contrast with today. Yes, in an absolute sense the economy is more productive, but it's also less egalitarian (income inequality is at historic highs in the United States and most other developed countries for which old measurements exist) and less secure (debt and leverage are not only rampant but the most common and expected ways of gaining access to housing and education, and few households can function without two incomes). The result is that for the median citizen, things haven't gotten better (few to no real-wage rises) since the 1970s, and the mean citizen (including people with very high nominal incomes) is vastly less secured against cash-flow disruptions. And since the housing, health-care, education and energy sectors are collecting massive economic rents, even the proliferation of cheap consumer goods hasn't actually done as much for the median and mean citizens as it should have: someone who has bare-minimum health insurance, and has to pay health premiums, taxes, ever-rising housing rent, and student-debt service on a salary in the range of $20k-$30k per year (assuming you live in the USA) simply cannot afford to consume that many Playstation 3 games.
Programmers and serial killers just look like ordinary people. That is all.
OpenSignal 1.0 crashed evrytime I opened it on my Nexus 4. I hope you guys have fixed all those issues and I also hope the refresh is now automatic in-app and not manual.
Ask HN: Why don't employees negotiate work week hours as often as salary?
Why is it so rare and/or a bad idea for employers?
For those interested:

1212672153 documents
across 2866400 repositories
taking up 17 TB of disk space
over 23 elasticsearch storage nodes
fronted by 8 elasticsearch compute nodes

It took about a month to iterate over all the repositories stored on the file servers and index the source code.
Wikipedia puts him at $230 billion in 1992, crazy indeed.

EDIT: Wikipedia meme, move along.
All repetitive labor will eventually be automated. It is only a matter of time.

The problem with capitalism and tech is that the efficiency gains realized through automation nearly all go to the owners of the firms. The human laborers replaced by programs and robots are just S.O.L. Capitalism only works for a society as long as capital owners need human labor to carry out production.

"The only solution I can see being viable is further socialization (in the US) of things like medical care, transportation, etc. in order to ensure that just because you don't have a high salary, doesn't mean you can't have a high quality of life. Either that or accept that the US is devolving into a 3rd world country."

Yes. Either we implement basic income and universal healthcare, and improve access to public services, or we will end up with a tiny, but very wealthy "owner" class, and a very large, unemployed, impoverished majority.

Better to do it soon, while it's still a choice, rather than later, when it isn't. History has shown that the masses will only put up with so much inequality before they openly revolt.

An opposing force to this, though, is that increased automation will continue to reduce costs and barriers to entry, allowing people with almost no resources to start some form of income-generating online "lifestyle business." A lot of people are doing this now, but not nearly enough people are capable of it, for it to be a sustainable career option for almost the entire American middle class. Yet.
Is there any plans on setting it up so you only do analysis for a certain time frame? Who are my top comments in the past year vs all time?
If you don't like a cable that could slide back behind your desk, you could also use what they recommend for their YubiKey Nano -- a "USB docking ball": http://www.amazon.co.uk/Docking-Station-Desktop-Stand-Extens...
Look into an online or distance degree, not necessarily in CS. Most places that have a degree filter will be okay with any degree over no degree. Specifically, try the London International Programmes. http://www.londoninternational.ac.uk/

That said, you should go to university for the intellectual stimulation, not just to get a higher paycheck.
While I agree with everything you say, this:

"A couple of watts on 109MHz could take down a light aircraft."

is without doubt the sort of unnecessary hyperbolic statement that leads directly to the modern security-theatre over reaction. Sure, it might lead to navigation problems which combined with enough other co-incidental bad luck might lead to a crash, but the reductio ad absurdum statement "$30 worth of widely available electronics could crash a Cessna" would surely lead to an entirely justified call from Cessna's legal department if published prominently enough.

Yeah, fucking around with poorly controlled transmitters in the FM broadcast band isn't a great idea. but telling people "you'll crash planes!" is a sure-fire way to have the rest of your message's reliability questioned.

(And, for the record, I'm going to try this out with my RaspberryPi and see if I can get some sort of handle on unexpected emissions using my FunCube software radio to listen above and below the tx frequency...)
Were you able to get to your blog without signing up? I can't seem to manage to.
We have a lot of demand from users who aren't able to access our app on Google Play. There's a lot of devices out there without market access e.g. Kindle Fire and we get a lot of demand in countries which don't have Google Play e.g. Iran & China.
I may be reading it wrong, but it looks to me that there are no female self-made billionaires, which is interesting.
Besides, some studies by professional economists provided evidence that a "regulated capitalist" economy with imperfect markets is really not substantially more efficient (in the strictly economic sense of the word) than a "liberalized socialist" economy. Market optimality apparently turned out to be an all-or-nothing property of the mathematical models that gave rise to significantly different (but still amenable to scientific examination when we alter the models) behavior in the real world.

http://jacobinmag.com/2012/12/the-red-and-the-black/
You can checkout this[1], which is in LaTeX. I'm by no means an expert though. I learned just enough LaTeX to get by in making it.

[1] https://github.com/bsandrow/resume.git
I've had similar results while in school when submitting plain old lab reports, writeups, research papers, etc.

Except I cut out the middle step and just downloaded the standard / most recognizable TeX font, and used it in Word:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Modern
Glad to see voting with my money is having a real impact. I've been using namecheap since the godaddy fiasco and love the service.
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Getting started with vanilla LaTeX isn't actually that bad. The very bare minimum is easy (take the hello world document, https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Basics#Our_first_documen... , as a template and start typing); after that, as you need to do more and more things you can look in the (very good) wikibook or google. One gradually works one's way up the learning curve.
Why does the link go to directly to self made, energy billionaires?
"picture him frothing at the mouth out of rage"

I get the opposite impression: that he really enjoys tearing into these hack articles more than that he's genuinely outraged. This is batting practice for Gruber.
That's my observation too. Also, none are African/African-American.

Edit: Stand corrected. Aliko Dangote.
You can sign ipa files with your developer (private) key. There's an app called InstaSign that I use for "testing" apps before purchasing them. You download a cracked version, sign it with your own key (so iPad thinks YOU have created this app, like when you do in Xcode) and see if it's worthwhile.

It's saved me a lot of money that otherwise would've wasted on scammy, buggy, "not-working-as-advertised" apps. If you're a developer (i.e., can sign apps and load them unto your device), give InstaSign a try.

They're probably using a similar method (as they seemingly test on iPad/iPhone, retina/non-retina, iOS5/6 devices and it might be a bit more work for you to add at least 6 new UDIDs).
I would not suggest that it's okay even for a private repo. Never let your private keys leave your machine or its dedicated, encrypted backup.
I can't decide who to believe.

I guess I should lean in Crossley's favour because he actually posted a conversation, even if that conversation is fake.

In addition, the author of this hoax claimed offense at an accusation that he is "18 years old with no job", yet this blog is anonymous, so how do we even know that he isn't 18 and unemployed?

I have now decided that the author is merely a petty attention whore, and he became angered when one of his intended puppets decided that he was full of shit.
They seem to be using the word "billionaire" loosely, it seems like a list of the 100 richest people.

Oprah Winfrey is a self made billionaire (net worth ~$2.7 billion)
I noticed this too - his four heirs listed are worth > $120 billion between them. Absolutely nuts.
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What's wrong with that? The last seven years contain the rise of modern mobile. Lots of new stuff has come out of that.
What are your thoughts on Amazon S3, since you're basically their customer by proxy?
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LaTeX as a whole is intimidating, but the core that you need to know to get started is actually pretty simple. I could teach it to you in about an hour.

That being said, I've never seen a written introduction that I would consider satisfactory. If you have a friend who knows LaTeX ask them to sit down with you and show you how to write a paper that includes headings, subheadings, figures, tables and some math equations. It might take an hour or two, but you'll then know more than enough to write basic documents, and google for anything else.

As for LyX, I've played with it, and I strongly prefer using LaTeX in emacs. Mostly because I like that my source document and the typeset document are separate.
I completely agree with the thrust of this - I see frameworks over composability everywhere these days and it makes my head spin.

However we do not yet seem to plug http in the same way we pipe command lines. Something seems to be missing,
this is a bug. https://twitter.com/artypapers/status/294217868097228801
As much as I love the 404, even more so I adore the immediate response of the hacker news community to find the best way to save all the lemmings. Bravo!
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This is very similar to Arrow. Take a look at the arrow project: https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow You guys did almost the same sort of thing. Maybe I'm wrong and you've enhanced the functionality set even more but it could be very well worth your efforts to combine forces.
NYTimes does not have a single unified reputation.

A front page story like "Pentagon Lifts Ban on Women in Combat" is probably highly accurate, breaking news less so. Op-Ed, might as well be a random blog.
I mean not taxing revenue earned outside the US when it is brought back into the US.
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I don't think socialism or a high salary is necessary to have a higher quality of life over the long term. As technology increases abundance, material goods will become cheaper. This has been happening for thousands of years. The mean and median standard of living has been steadily increasing for a long time. I see no reason why it should be any different now. I think the real problem is only what to do over the short term with people that have trouble being useful in today's economy. Some socialism to solve that problem, I think, would be a good idea.
How long is this deal going on for? I still gotta get my act together.
Pentagon Lifting Ban on Women in Combat
Orthogonal #bpm
A post about process, managing process, and defining/improving process...
Wouldn't Laurene Powell technically have a very nice spot on this list?
Wow. The infographic is cool but some of the copy is incredibly snarky. On Mark Zuckerburg under 'intelligence' "Sister Randi likes to pretend she was a television production assistant." That said I think it's more interesting to see who the next 900 richest people are than the top 100. maybe just me though.
Andrew Auernheimer case uncomfortably similar to Aaron Swartz case
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This exactly describes Google's most recent quarter - profits up 6%, revenues up 19%. Yet investors welcomed those results.
Thanks I tried to provide an objective legal analysis. That said, I think you raise a very important point just b/c something is legally permissible does not make it moral behavior.
How is that not an egregious misuse of the flag button. Do people just go down the list and flag every article they aren't personally interested in?
Is this list accurate? I don't see Bloomberg (the person). According to Wikipedia, he's worth 25B, so I would expect to see him.
Surprised to see Sergei Brin so low on the list, considering his website is the number 1 IN THE ENTIRE PLANET.

Then I remembered, the old saying: "You gotta diversify yo bonds, nigga." [1] - The top spots have mining operations, tech, banking, etc.

[1] - http://www.comedycentral.com/video-clips/tw2ltp/chappelle-s-...
We're always interested in bug reports. Its most helpful if you can provide a detailed description so that we can try and recreate it. For example, you said it crashes on start but is it immediate or does it occur consistently after a particular element loads? Anything else that you notice? Also, detailed breakdown of carrier, device & software version always helps. In terms of updates we use the standard Google Play system, so you'll receive a notification when you open the Google Play app & the app will update automatically if you select the automatica updates checkbox. Thanks for the feedback.
This is better than any of the solutions using JavaScript!
It has been "common knowledge" ever since Warren pushed a study claiming it during election season.

The gist of the flaw is this:

# Medical bankruptcies = # of bankruptcies x [P(bankruptcy | medical cause) - P(bankruptcy | no medical cause)] x P(medical cause)

Warren computed only P(medical cause | bankruptcy). Thus, her study cannot, even in principle, be used to estimate # medical bankruptcies.

However, she used verbiage hinting that P(medical cause | bankruptcy) x # of bankruptcies = # of medical bankruptcies (do the math - it's not). A bunch of innumerate reporters read the verbiage and ignored the math, leading this "fact" to become "common knowledge".

The claim may or may not be true - I don't know of good data on it. But all Warren did was deliberately confuse the issue to support her political allies.

See also http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2009/06/elizabet...
At risk of sounding like a communist...

When you consider just how much money $10+ billion is, from an ethical standpoint, does any individual deserve to have that much money/power?

I can't help but think that it is really a grotesque thing for a single person to have more money than the GDP of a country like Cuba. There's just no way one person has contributed to society enough to justify that kind of wealth.
Interesting that 71 of the 100 are self made. Of the 29 that inherited their wealth, 12 are female, however of the 71 that are self made, none are female. Very surprising that the disparity is that huge. Also surprising that only one of the 100 is black. We have a long way to go!
Alternative strategy: don't use it.
#47, Aliko Dangote
He is still young give that 20 billion another 30 years and see where there at.
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This comment is a great example of problem #3 from the article: nitpicking at wording instead of engaging with ideas.
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It looks like it's going flatter in v3 according to this tweet from @mdo the other day: https://twitter.com/mdo/status/291831248576458752
As suggested by another commenter, that's a false dichotomy. I'd argue there's lots of room for innovation and refinement here.

Manual or algorithmic identification of family members is one option, but I think there's something more to be gained here by understanding the behavior just a bit more abstractly... Shopping moods? Modes? Targets? Tasks? Something, possibly – but I'm only guessing here. The real power could come from actually working with/doing user research and prototyping.

I'd love the chance to work on such a project, actually – I had a chance to work with data from a study on the online shopping habits of mothers a few years ago and there's lots of interesting angles to possibly explore, IMHO.
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I just show up and leave when I want. Being the average human I only think about things that impact me. Rather short sighted and selfish I know. But I have never thought about why people do not negotiate work hours because I assumed everyone did because it is what I negotiate hours when I decide to sign on somewhere.

I think that it rather obvious that people are comfortable with accepting the status quo. 9-5 is the standard workday.
Because it is the "standard" people do not question it.

Going back to the original question, it is not a bad idea to negotiate work week hours.

I always negotiate work week hours. If a job requires that I show up at a certain time, I don't take
the job. The job needs me. I do not need the job. As long as I ship, they should not care when I show up or
don't show up.

It is an antiquated belief system that dictates work hours.
No, she apparently misses it by just a hair. Didn't Jobs also miss this list while he was alive?
Solid 6 FPS in Chrome :(
The 1 Billion Euro grant has just been approved today: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5105593
Not a single self-made woman makes the top 100.
Orthogonal
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In a city with "1 murder, 2 rapes, 25 robberies, 25 assaults, 35 burglaries, 110 thefts, and 20 stolen cars" PER DAY -- the public is exactly who you'd better be afraid of.
Hey, don't forget to heap the appropriate blame on the middle classes, to whom suburban quarter-acre housing is the most common form of investment and savings for retirement. There ought to be a watch-word: treating a durable good as an investment leads to bubbles.
Who are we to believe here? The anonymous blogger or the editor who refused to publish a lie?

"X-surface"/Joe sounds like he really wanted to make a point, and got mad when someone disproved his premise. I'd like to know how many people he emailed vs. which sites actually published the rumor.
"Deserve" ?

Except for thief, lottery, inheritance, marriage, or trickery, money is made when you've created value for others. Repeat and scale multiple times over, and you've not only made money, you've contributed and made others lives better, happier, more entertaining, or less stressful, etc.

Using their businesses as leverage, most of these billionaires have made their fortunes creating billions of dollars worth of value for the masses. They deserve every penny of it.
If he wasn't splitting that #1 website with Larry, he'd be in the top 10.
But only a fraction of the 340k properties are vacant and available at any given time. In an already tight market, reducing the number of currently available rental properties by 3,000 is a huge reduction of supply.
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It's the top 100. Like Steve Jobs, Oprah doesn't make the list.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetorical_question
Not just Aliko Dangote, but also #16 Alwaleed Al Saud.
Even if they are similar cases (an assessment I disagree with), I doubt Auernheimer will get nearly as much sympathy among the hacker community given his history of trolling and malicious behavior, compared to Swartz's history of creative and constructive actions.
"Last Updated 12-22-10"

Wow. I guess the income from the swag (and their 15 minutes) ran out.
That was going to be my comment as well: nice idea and well executed. I think it manages to balance the marketing and charity/cause angles well, which is a balance that's pretty easy to flub.
Quora gets into the publishing business with new blogging platform
A useful counter blog about ignoring the perceived dangers of the environment is Lenore Skenanzy blog "Free-range Kids - How to Raise Safe, Self-Reliant Children (Without Going Nuts with Worry)". http://www.freerangekids.com/
Why wait for planning to change and consequent environment change which will take years when you can send the kids to the playground/school/shops now!
I'm not interested in Lemmings, Python, or the fate of THQ, but I don't flag those stories down simply because they're not of interest to me or do not fit what I personally imagine "hackers" should care about.
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Definitely isn't RTM.

Here are those sections in RTM.
http://imgur.com/Uz5xi0t
http://imgur.com/k3Comek

edit: It appears the reply buttons do squish like that on narrower screens though, but it's at around 1000px wide or less, so that's really a non-point in this day and age. Gradient issue isn't there though.
Hrmm that's embarrassing... well it's mentioned below the fold and everyone knows people don't pay attention to that stuff. :)
Don't believe everything you read on Wikipedia. A week ago that was edited from $23 billion to $230,000 billion (i.e. $230 trillion), which is obviously preposterously wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Walton&dif...
I am kind of disappointed that you cannot use LaTeX math in the entries. On quora it JUSTWORKED so I was hoping that it would work on their blogging platform but nope: $\sin\theta$ just sits there in its dollar signs...

Feature request: math support.
I wish we could too, but instead we rely on the time honored approach of charging our customers directly for our services, rather than trying to monetize with advertising or selling your data. We do offer 2GB for free for life though. Thanks for your interest regardless!
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Once you start to play that game, doesn't the conversation begin and end with John D. Rockefeller?
Aah. That makes sense. I was looking for Julia-Louis Dreyfus.
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