skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AirBnB has, at best, a $56 million impact on the SF economy. Ben Bernanke is printing $85 billion per month to buy mortgage backed securities via QE3/4:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/afontevecchia/2012/12/12/qe4-is-...

QE4 is here. Only a few months after announcing what had
been dubbed QE3, an open-ended $40 billion a month program
to buy up mortgage backed securities (MBS), the FOMC
decided to extend its asset purchases in 2013 as Operation
Twist expires. Combined with QE3, the Fed will be taking
$85 billion in bonds, both Treasuries and MBS

It is likely that Bernanke's $85B/month has a far bigger impact on housing price inflation, and hence rent.
best 404 page i've seen !
I ended up playing.

Code is pretty neat. I thought you'd need more lines than this.
http://www.romainbrasier.fr/js/lemmings.js
I understand that there are people in the world who have to hide their private data for fear of gov't persecution or extreme judgement from family and their peers.

That's not the case for me, my Facebook data is useless. If they kept it, it wouldn't harm me in any way. It's not super secret, or very interesting stuff. So why not give it to them to visualize in an interesting way?
I don't see any statistics, just a very well-written article with some anecdotes.
Other than the animations, what is the difference between tiles and app icons on every other mobile OS?
Do you talk about your problems?
Apple’s Q1 2013: Revenue Up 17.7% to $54.5B, $13.1B In Profit
Apple’s Q1 ’13: Record $54.5 rev, $13.1B profit
As someone whose employer just underwent Chapter 11 and a subsequent sale, I hope that the power-jousting, cockfights, backstabbing, and general dumbassery that I experienced will not happen to the members of THQ. The lengths some people will go through for some token of power...
Bill Gates, Sal Khan, Walter Isaacson talk education (May 2012)
Can someone just write a script that crawls this page for updates, then sends the users an email telling them what they did?
Tickets Bar by Ferrán Adriá in Barcelona...
Oh wow. I just raged at my manager for exactly this type of problem.

I'm not sure if it's due to someone's lack of technical ability, or if they get distracted by other externalities, but we always tend towards something that seems really simple at first but instead incurs a lot of technical and process debt later on.

Brilliant read.
Seriously.

It looks like people have added their private keys to (public!!!) repos, and voila, a search allows others to find that.
.ssh should probably be on a default .gitignore list, along with .DS_Store
Is anyone impressed else by how quickly and successfully* GitHub has been rolling out new features over the past few months? I think almost every one of their new features has in some way made my life a little easier.

Kudos to the whole team.

* Granted, uptime might have been a causality.
ngx_pagespeed - PageSpeed module for Nginx (*alpha*)
Nostalgic IE ad
How to Identify if Your Website Has Been Hacked?
Github is serving up private keys for those that added them to a git repository. I was wondering how they would be giving away my private key ... without me giving it to them.
I hope people take the high road here and dont make an example out of github members. People make mistakes. You dont need to delete their repo to show them. A friendly email will do.

Also Github, provide an option to protect those who are less security savy.
I personally thought the recipe example/explanation did a fine job at explaining the roles of publishing, and how we (the author) and LaTeX complement each other.
Respectfully I disagree. This level of understanding is not necessary.

Metaphor: if you are fighting a fire, you don't kneed to understand the full composition of th various fuels and the exact molecular characteristics of the fire at every point, it is enough to know that water will quench it.

- I realise that many on HN have an aversion to metaphors so please forgive me and let me continue to elaborate.

Wole cell emulation is certainly not necessary, although it would no doubt be interesting to be able to do this at some long-distant point.

We don't need to do this because it really does seem as though it is enough to understand the mechanisms of unconstrained cellular proliferation through genetic analysis and surface protein characterisation.

This will allow targeted therapies through:

1) Find the genes that are Broken, or allow the final common pathway of cell proliferation to be stuck in the 'on' position, and work out how to block them.

-Initially this will be done by designed drugs following the model of glivec but one day soon (i hope) it seems likely that siRNA technologies will make it a lot easier and faster

2) characterise the surface molecules that are different in the cancerous cells and design targeted therapies for them,

- as with Trastuzamab for HER2 in receptor positive breast cancers; in the future it seems more likely that we will be able to achieve good efficacy with musing camel antibodies (smaller, high affinity), and by combining the antibodies to substances to deliver targeted radiation, chemotherapy and upregulate the immune response against the cells

3) immune system-boosting therapies which prime the immune system against specific cancers

- already shown in proof of concept for various leukemias, see New England Journal of Medicine 'Chimeric Antigen Receptor–Modified T Cells in Chronic Lymphoid Leukemias' , doi://10.1056/NEJMoa1103849

You say we need to understand the mechanics of cells down to a molecular level; in a very many cases we do:'we understand huge areas of cellular biology down to the atomic and molecular level. There are of course many things we don't understand or know yet, but emulation is not necessary for knowing them and it seems quite clear that proliferation pathways are very well characterised indeed, and have been for around 20-25 years; since all cancerous cells must proliferate by this pathway it is simply (I know, it is very difficult, but still, I say again, simply) a matter of determining which pathway is being used and blocking it, whilst also destroying the cell.

Not easy work, but I believe something that we are making good progress on.

- my 2c given a background in molecular biology and as a final year med student
Partners needed for hellhole escape plan
I'm stuck in a company that does not know how to properly use product management. SURELY there is a firm (hopefully in Austin; if not, let's talk) that appreciates having an experienced, motivated, talented PM on board.

Here's the metadata:

* 20 years' experience. Semiconductors, smartphones, firmware, software.

* Both startups and old school firms.

* Product mgmt, Program mgmt, key account support, software design

* Rails, Python, HTML/CSS, plus a little R / Node / Backbone

* Lean startups, Growth hacking, Open source, Failing fast

* EE degree plus an MBA (don't knock it. It helped.)

I've traveled all over the world, am great in front of customers, and my wife says I look good in a suit. Not looking to be paid a million bucks. (It would be nice, however.)

Look me up. I'm on LinkedIn, Stack Exchange, GitHub & Quora. We should talk.

Brian Piercy

Austin, Texas, y'all

http://www.linkedin/in/brianpiercy
Not necessarily, you could end up with a sort of Walmart Feudalism, where basic material goods and essential services are low-priced enough that you can afford them on the little that is accorded to you from the generosity of the aristocracy.
Of course, part of the question was how to explain it to somebody who does not know about Word or Publisher.
From the article:
>Overall, though, technology is eliminating far more jobs than it is creating.

I agree, Technology has and is a great innovator and has created a lot of jobs. But when you begin reducing the number of low-effort jobs, what do you do with the people that used to be employed? It's a fact of averages that 50% of people are below the 100 IQ line - it seems that the new world economy has no place for them.
Chinese Hackers To Blame For One Third of Global Cyberattacks
You are worried about privacy yet use FB?
Good article about finding out how to get motivated to learn something, but this has very little to do with coding aside from the context of the goal.

Aside from that, stuff like:

"Here's why I finally learned to code: I've been a web entrepreneur since I was eleven years old — for over sixteen years now..."

Makes me discount just about everything that was written. I just have a bitter taste left over from this massive ego leak.
I don't see any advantage to running the install native. I've actually had more issues in native installs than through VMs.

As a side note, if anyone is interested in running an Ubuntu desktop VM, I highly recommend Lubuntu. It's extremely lightweight and fast, it's perfect for VMs.
I do completely agree here. I don't know why people prefer hiding their email IDs and friends lists, comments they have made and things they liked. Having said that, I might have to make my privacy settings more strong if the Facebook Graph Search turns something like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5100679
Definitely not, but is interesting to take a look and see what's going on inside - and where each framework tends to concentrate its "energy".
Or SSH private keys.

https://github.com/search?q=path%3A.ssh%2Fid_rsa&type=Co...
Another business guy turned programmer here. It's good to see that there are more of us out there and that I'm not the only crazy one. Some advice I would give to anybody who wants to learn to code from scratch:

- Focus. Don't do it on the side, it would take too long. Treat learning to code as if it was your regular job(I tried to do 40-60hrs per week, I did about 2000hrs of coding in my first year)

- Don't hurry. Don't obsess about efficiency and how you use your time. You will waste tons of time on stupid bugs and knowledge you don't really need, that's just part of the learning process. Focus on putting in those hours week after week and you will see results.

- Work on a project. The only way to truely understand how things work is to actually use them. Don't hide yourself behind books, try to apply everything you learn asap.

- Give yourself permission to suck. This is really hard if you're older (I was 30 when I started to code). If you already have a career, you're not accustomed to be utterly clueless anymore. I had already forgotten how slow and painful it is to learn something from scratch. So give yourself a break and judge yourself the same way you would judge a stranger. Don't expect to become stellar in a matter of months just because you're smart. Hint: so is everybody else who is coding for a living.
A beautiful solution to micro-payments - because cellphone minutes are a useful one-use good for many people.

I wonder how Apple or Android could create a similar fiat currency for applications?
I like all of the functionality it provides. Your project is similar in idea to my own, https://github.com/sbuss/wtftz.

I also have a half-working website at http://wtftz.com for easy timezone conversions
At first I was going to agree with you, but then thought about how extortionate the commissions are for most tech recruiters...

If they are trying to recruit smart talent with a lot of free time on their hands (IE nerdy college students), then there is probably high ROI from a stunt like this. Its on the front page of HN, probably Reddit and maybe some other blogs by now. Huge PR gain, plus a challenge that has smart creative young people clamoring to work for them. Its actually a smart investment.
I gave you an upvote for the interesting and unique stat. You're probably getting downvoted for almost paranoid conclusion you add after.
They need a ninja to fix their page. Not very agile on the JS.
I slightly disagree. Obviously you're entirely correct about the amount of time spent editing text versus figuring out how to code stuff. The "time efficiency" argument for vim is pretty rubbish.

For me (and I appreciate the irony) I like vim because it has a lower cognitive load. I can say things like "Change the contents of the quotes to say Goodbye Planet", rather than having to actually execute the instructions --

move left a word, move left a word, start highlight, move right a word, move right a word, move right a word, stop and check to see my cursor is in the right place, press delete, type phrase "Goodbye Planet"

The benefits measured in time are no doubt negligible (or even negative -- as you say, editing time pales in comparison to other work), but the benefits to my concentration are much higher. Tedious, repetitive work makes me frustrated, distracted, or both. If I can keep myself in a good mental space and not be constantly interrupted by having to babysit my source editor, I can be more productive.

PS: And then I spend the time on HN :/
I suppose if the goal was karma farming then to be complete you would first repost a highly ranked story and then you would repost the highest ranked comment on your repost. And presumably if the same people read it again and voted again then you would capture the most possible re-karma points :-)
Intern at Heyzap (YC W09) and ship mobile code to millions
It is ironic since one of the Github's latest changes broke plugin distribution for ElasticSearch.
Almost $4,000,000 a year on "sidewalk falls". Does anyone know what % on average an injury lawyer makes from those settlements?
Scratch the word "potentially" from my last comment.
var ims = document.getElementsByTagName('img');
var event = document.createEvent("MouseEvent");
event.initMouseEvent("mouseover", true, true, window);
for(var i=0;i<ims.length; i++){
ims[i].dispatchEvent(event);
}

:(
A guy named Peter Frase considered this question in Jacobin magazine a while back (link below). His answer pivots around resources availability and social construction.

Based on these constructs he developed "Four Futures" as follows:

-Egalitarianism and abundance: communism

-Hierarchy and abundance: rentism

-Egalitarianism and scarcity: socialism

-Hierarchy and scarcity: exterminism

Frase definitely swings from one side of the fence, so it may not be your kind of thing - but it's one take on the idea.

http://jacobinmag.com/2011/12/four-futures/
Grow your business like a weed by finding your niche
Unregulated sharing pisses me off. Let's put an end to this madness.
Way better than a simple "Oops, page not found, blah, blah, blah"
You can't be serious when Dr.Einstein said he was not smart. He is pure genius. Absolutely no doubt. He was saying that just to make ordinary people feel good.
Definitely a "you did what?" situation but probably still newsworthy since the new search tool makes the user's error easier to exploit and the publicity about the tool will make it more likely that someone will exploit it.
13 Online Business Advertising And Promotion Drifts For 2013
Very interesting indeed, sir. I've personally also found a lot of joy in diving down into C implementations (in my case, the JNI, although Ruby is my language of choice).

You've certainly inspired me to take a closer look at the MRI, as well as macros in general. Thanks!
If, as a US citizen, you're going to have (or need) serious treatment done for which you will have to pay a considerable amount of money it might be an option to go overseas. I can highly recommend going to Thailand. They have great medical centers in Bangkok with very professional and highly skilled doctors and specialists AND you're treated like a patient who needs care.
Feature Request

Allow us to search only within our starred repositories. The current search for starred repositories is not so great because it doesn't search the README (or code but README is more useful in finding the repo I want)
The way I figure it, jobs would indeed become irrelevant if energy was free or so-cheap-as-to-be-free, and raw materials were also free or so-cheap-as-to-be-free. Labor and natural resources are fundamentally the origin of all value in an economy (IMO).

This doesn't mean we'd instantly all be equal- I would think we could look to communities of the ridiculously-wealthy today, in which case it looks like it would then be about having access to rare or unique things. In other words, no longer about money, but rather connections.
Ironically, you just described the gameplay of THQ-published Saint's Row 3.
Apple Reports Record Results
Yeah, I don't have a solution to the situation, but when you look at the topline profits (going up), and employment (going down) at almost every corporation.. the rhetoric about "job creators" is a bit much.
This has been a trend over all of human history. Going to keep it brief and technically incorrect to paint a picture...

Initially, everyone was required to either hunt or gather food (probably). After a bit, humanity settled down into farming, and fewer people were required to keep everybody fed. This allowed for more time for childbirth. Better understanding of agriculture led to the creation of larger towns with specialized jobs such as blacksmiths and stables which led to farm animals helping to improve yields even further. To create the tools, some people had to go into mining jobs.

The pattern here is that advancement allows fewer people in each economic area to provide the same benefits, freeing up labor for new economic areas.

So clearly, the modern move to automate jobs isn't necessarily anything new. People are now free to move into creating accounting software instead of manually filling out journals. The problem occurs when the people freed up from advances do not have any new work to move into.

The result may simply be de-urbanization - people moving back into the countryside to grow their own food. Most people can afford to buy a small plot of land in the middle of nowhere (small piece of land in the middle of Africa is practically free). Or the result may be socialism. Or the result may be new economic sectors being revealed by innovation. Fortune telling won't get us very far.
Things That Are Never Admitted About Open Source
> Completely flat design has no sense of layers or depth.

Windows 8 suffers particularly strongly from this because it's got a lot of software that wasn't originally designed for the Metro style. Outlook (http://i.imgur.com/7fWEmvm.png) is one of the worst examples.

There are so many small things that would help give a hierarchy to the design, like using a darker shade of gray in the ribbon background and maybe the sidebar. Without visual cues it's a mess that you have to stare at to understand.
I can't comment on Sweden, but in Canada, you essentially go to any doctor you want. It was in the US, where the insurance company more-or-less assigned a doctor, that I lacked freedom of choice.
And yet the "have nots" of today have far more than the haves from yesteryear.

An increase in the difference of relative wealth is not fundamentally bad if the absolute wealth increases for everybody. Of course no one thinks like this.
Agreed, this is no more a "Linux distro" than Cygwin is, but it does sound useful (much like Cygwin's bash shell).
You could end up with the police union buying the house next door to you, staging protests there and posting signs about how dangerous your making the city. You could even end up finding yourself or relatives followed for their protection as well.

It is not the public someone who wants to run on that platform has to fear
Please. Everything here is either worse or better than it is everywhere else. That's why the whole of the rest of the world without any exception at all is in absolute awe of New York. :)
Correction, not don't do that: you can't do that any more. Is that helpful?
The one time those spammy GitHub bots could be put to good use
I'm sure you can choose if you really really want to, but there are sensible default options. The way it should be in my opinion:
1. Go to nearest hospital, no need to worry about insurance or whether it's a "preferred" hospital for your insurance company.
2. Get assigned doctor(s) based on your needs.
3. Get treatment. No need to check what treatments are covered and if your doctor is trying to screw you over with unnecessary expensive tests.
3. Relax. No paperwork because there is a unified information system. No insurance paperwork because it's all covered.

I think it's difficult to imagine how much easier it can be, when you're used to dealing with heavy bureaucracy and insurance companies. I can't explain how much less stressed I was in that system. Then again, I'm even stressed about owning a car with all that entails in terms of check-ups, oil changes, repairs, insurance, expiring licenses, parking etc. Perhaps other people are better at dealing with this crap than I am.
I've met more than a couple of programmers who are otherwise so computer illiterate that you pretty much have to walk them over and sit them down in front of a text editor.

Most people around here seem to have somewhat decent system-admin skills, but there's also lots of students and even professionals who just haven't messed around with virtualization very much.

I'm pretty good at using VMWare to set up Linux systems in Windows, but I haven't tried the opposite yet. Sure, I could probably figure it out, but it's nice to have this guide to fall back on if something goes wrong.
I have a Windows host and Lubuntu guest. I love the setup. It's perfect for gaming and dev.
The power button is a software control. It generates an interrupt, and the operating system shuts down the computer. For all purposes, the exact same deal as if you hit the software power button.
Well yes, but there were previously variously reasons to either sincerely believe, or argue-against for ideological reasons, the notion that capitalism must impoverish everyone who isn't a capitalist.

As it is, I think the Coming Model is going to have to be some extended form of Danish-style "Flexicurity": a market economy with the means of production under mixed control (nationalization of common assets but no seizing private wealth), near-complete market flexibility, but a system of social insurances and social dividends that share out some portion of the total wealth and prevent actual poverty and destitution for everyone.

Then we'll see what people will actually create under such a model. It could well end up like the late '40s and the '50s-'60s: with a crisis resolved, demand is liberated, what had been financial wealth is converted into a real standard-of-living rise, and whole loads of new products and professions open up that can only exist because the working class is now secure and prosperous enough to support them.
It's interesting to me how negative most of the comments are here, compared to how positive they were for a very similar idea last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5081053
I feel bad the lemmings splat and die :/
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I dont know. Its one thing when you are 65 and all your kids are grown up. Its a whole other thing when you are 50 and have young children at home. I have a friend with 4 young kids. He has stage 4 cancer requiring constant chemo and pain, but he is going to fight it with everything they have in order to be there as long as possible with his kids - and maybe beat it.
That is not the only disturbing part. SSH private key by itself is not much of a threat, but bundled together with known_hosts is a recipe for disaster.
Any of you here use LaTeX for creative writing? Or is it mostly used for academic and profession writings?
"I have never seen a period where computers demonstrated as many skills and abilities as they have over the past seven years." - Andrew McAfee principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business of MIT.

Seriously?
Github search reveals private keys
What I find hilarious about journalists in general is they wrap themselves in "truth" when in reality they basically will do anything to get your attention for just long enough to pawn off some product in a 30-45 second ad. The only reason they seek the "truth" is so advertisers will buy another slot.