skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Might be better to make some good money, and then retire kind of young and focus on whatever else you really want to do with complete financial freedom.

That's an attractive idea in theory, but it almost never works out that way in practice. Your brain rewires itself over the years to match what you're doing. Unless you are very unusual, your expenses will drift up to match your income. You are almost certainly much better off to make your plans as though today was the first day of the rest of your life.

> I suspect that traders actually do contribute though, just like every single other sector of the economy.

Absolutely, they do. But it has to be past the point of diminishing returns by now. Cutting the time to move capital from a week to a day was surely a contribution to the economy. Cutting it from a hundred milliseconds to fifty milliseconds? I have a hard time believing that does more for the economy than writing a better poker bot.

> If you really want to understand the cutting edge and see new opportunities, you have to be carefully reading the research papers that are being published

Business opportunities usually arise some way behind the cutting edge. You are right of course that you don't want to fall into writing yet another cat photograph website because you don't know how to do anything else. But neither do you want to waste the best years of your life obsessing about the mathematical properties of some esoteric algorithm that ends up being no better than off-the-shelf algorithms on practical workloads. The sweet spot tends to be somewhere in the middle.
I think the article answers your question:

“The welfare state we have is excellent in most ways,” says Gunnar Viby Mogensen, a Danish historian. “We only have this little problem. We can’t afford it.”
When you work with the Microsoft stack, except for a few core technologies, you have no idea if the "hot" API or current solution Redmond is pushing will be supported or abandoned in a couple of years. Combine that with stapling Metro, a tablet/phone API to the side of the desktop in Windows 8, many developers I know are tired of being thrashed and burned.

As a developer/analyst/admin that works primary in the MS application/data realms, I'm bummed out that MS can't communicate with developers and seems very disfunctional vision-wise. But as someone who also uses OSS software and OSS OSes, I'm not tied to their whims. Neither are a growing number of my clients...
This is really sad since StatsMix was a good alternative to other behavioral analytics services. Will you be open sourcing your technology?
I think that's the main reason I personally can't get into the game.

As a programmer, my life revolves around creating stuff out of basic building blocks. Anything I can imagine.

With the added benefit that people actually pay me to do this stuff. Score!
I'd love to buy one too, but it would be expensive at $50, $250 is insane.
I wonder if they would consider open sourcing their code?
Path Fined By FTC For Illegally Collecting Information From Children
This is exactly what happens. I know several 10- and 11- year olds (my gf's sister is 23 years younger) and they all lie about their age to use Facebook and Google - with the knowledge and consent of their parents/guardians.

This is incredibly stupid.
I think this is exactly the problem Rob Walling is solving with his new app Drip (http://getdrip.com). Friction-free, end-to-end drip campaigns aimed at increasing conversion rates. Competition!

I've had success with drip campaigns, but one key factor that is non-negotiable is that the content has to be phenomenal. It's really not the tool that matters. The reason why Patrick McKenzie can rave about double-digit spikes from drip campaigns is because he is a great writer and even better marketer.
Linux on Windows 8 PCs: Step backs, steps forward
Computer science part of English Baccalaureate
What we're seeing here is the desire of the rest of the developed world to "Catch up" to the United States' model of Capitalism.

Corporate Profit is now the most important thing, and as those corporations expand globally and use their might and influence, we see more and more countries reduce public spending, cut taxes and make it easier for big business to flourish at the expense of the average citizen.

IMO this is a horrible thing for citizens of developed countries, and I genuinely hope countries can find a way to buck this trend and not focus purely on corporate profits. I don't know if that's possible when The United States has the best advertising agency in the world (Hollywood).

I think it likely happiness indexes will fall as more countries tend towards the US model, unfortunately.
Did you actually vist sites from this list? microsoft.com, sony.com, about.com feature Responsive Home Page. Every link goes to a fixed width page. This kind of defeats the purpose of the RWD. When I am on the phone I probably want something more interesting than a home page.
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There is no confusion here: I want control of my data.

Currently the number of web apps (by which I mean something with a html/css/js interface that runs in a web browser) that I can run locally with my own data that I store locally (or not, my choice) is tiny. The number of native apps that give me full control of my data is huge, because native platforms make that easy to do. Local file access APIs are relatively new in the browser.

You are correct that there are plenty of tasks that are inherently about communicating with another computer, but that is not what we are talking about here. Writing a document needn't involve communicating with another computer. Editing an image needn't involve communicating with another computer. Maintaining my todo list, calculating how much time to bill a client; these needn't involve communication with another computer that I don't control.
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Nest | The Learning Thermostat
America seems to produce the best media content in the world (at least in terms of demand), and the best academic content (at least in terms of citations). Does that indicate that the legal system etc. surrounding media and copyright is probably pretty good?
StatsMix is Shutting Down
So would this be a non-story if it was CIA involved instead of FBI?
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Nope, that would be us, Latin American countries :-D

http://americablog.com/2012/12/poll-latin-americans-the-happ...

Not sure why though.
Being of nordic extraction, I'd suggest that nordics also have the highest rate of claiming happiness, even when miserable.
Dotcom offers 10K euro reward for breaking Mega's crypto
A festival of spelling errors.
Google settles with French press: will create €60 Million “press fund”
Think of the children!

This is old and tired, especially when you throw in emotionally charged phrases like "prey on". Does Facebook prey on its users? Around a billion people don't think so.
Path Reaches Settlement with FTC Over Address Book Privacy Concerns
How is the immigration process in the region? I might not be able to get permanent residency soon enough in the US, and so it might be worth checking out other countries (I am also eyeing Canada). This is speaking as a graduate from one of the top 3 CS schools in the US, former "Big Company" employee and currently doing a startup.
> Responsive design will not bring you one additional customer when compared to fixed design.

This is simply untrue. Even exposure is a form of commerce, and if you can't sell your content, you're out of luck. If there are no other external reasons for the user to be there, she will close the tab and move on to more legible things.
But the academics can't "wait +/- 20 years" --- they have careers to build now. Grad students, post-docs, and junior faculty have to build a portfolio of work that will be impressive across many institutions where they might get tenure, or just their next gig. (Most would love to get promoted at MIT, but the odds are against that.)

If most of those institutions are looking at the same set of prestigious, closed journals, avoiding those journals is not an option for an ambitious academic --- and if MIT starts insisting they must, good talent will go elsewhere.

That's why this is hard.
Maybe you can find here one or another point for angular: http://www.nebithi.com/2012/12/27/backbone-and-angular-demys...
No, raising money doesn't put a floor under your acquisition price. It puts a floor under the acquisition price at which the founders make money.

So while a company can certainly paint itself into a corner by raising too much, that phenomenon is not what's responsible for the statistic quoted in this article. If you paint yourself into a corner by raising too much, it doesn't decrease the probability that your company will be acquired, just how much money you'll make personally if it is.

If anything, raising too much money increases the probability a company will be acquired, because (by definition of "too much") it increases the probability the company will fail, and a fire-sale acquisition is the default outcome for companies that have raised a lot of VC funding.
Secretary of Energy Steven Chu Resigning
What do you mean by "abandoned"? Isn't pretty much everything Microsoft releases supported on its original platform for at least 10 years? With OSS software and OSes, do you get better support guarantees?
so the counterargument is that the opportunity cost doesn't exist because the hypothetical MS grad earning more is bad at managing money?
What is the process for cryopreservation? What happens if Alcor goes broke?
Okay, i worked it out, no thanks to yoo. Actually, i fucking worked it out IN SPITE of you. All your condescending hints and links and such were entirely bullshit and did not even remotely lead in the direction of explaining why the data seems dissonant. They were flat out orthogonal to the entire problem.

The important thing which you did not bother to point here even once is that the comparisons on the overview page are done against the fastest programs of all languages, thus weighting the results by a factor that is simply not present when one language is compared directly against another.

So, alright, the graphs do entirely make sense.

Would you be open to a patch that reworks the language vs. language comparison pages in such a manner as to make this relationship obvious?
Maybe get an affiliate link to help support the site?
Microsoft rumored to buy Appcelerator
My answer to those people, "Deal with it."

My analytics on my sites have shown people with screens smaller than that are in the very very small minority.
Didn't he say that he was pursuing his "dreams of being a startup co-founder"?
But it is as anonymous as those who want it to be want, no? Any links to studies on this besides the UCD one? I'd love to read more.

http://anonymity-in-bitcoin.blogspot.ie/2011/07/bitcoin-is-n...
Forget Tender, Get satisfaction, is an email address enough?
Superbowl Web Traffic by Region
Unpatched Wordpress Instance on Yahoo Blog Leads to Cookie Theft
The building which routes most digital communications from Latin America
The analog to digital shift in trade publishing: an author's viewpoint
"merits are where the battle will be won or lost"

We do not live in a society where merits are often where battles are won or lost, though. Certainly not in entrenched systems.
The fire question
I live in a country -- not Sweden -- with a "book of valid names".

What most people miss is that the list IS NOT AUTHORITATIVE.

Once you move outside the "comfort zone" (lacking better words) of this list the only thing that happens is that you have to reasonably explain the name to authorities.

This can be as simple as showing that the name was already used in another country (say the USA). This only leads to people thinking harder about naming their child "Brfxxccxxmnpcccclll mmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116"[1]

[1]: http://boingboing.net/2008/02/20/swedish-couple-fined.html
Ask HN:  Would you like to Never get a paper recept again?
I'm beginning work on an Saas platform which businesses can integrate into the POS/App/whatever to produce a digital receipt. In its simple form, it would send a non-editable digital version (PDF) of your receipt to an email address.

Before I get deep into this, do you guys think that there is a sustainable business model around this concept? I'm looking to approach it from an eco-friendly standpoint as well, but I'm not sure if that alone can really hammer this concept home. I don't think the concept is truly novel, but I don't see many retailers embracing this model (except for Apple). I'm thinking it could be poor execution from other platforms, or perhaps there are some legal issues that I'm just not aware of.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated!
Indeed - thanks.
Thats a bonus for existing applications, but not when choosing a technology for a new one. If your technology gets shelved, you won't be able to grow with underlying framework. Now new interesting stuff for you, except if you rebuild.

Apple for example takes a different route: they have shorter support spans, but rarely invalidate whole technology stacks. Cocoa is still alive and kicking after all those years.
Internet Users, Tech Companies Beware: Son of SOPA Lives
Probably the best hour I spent on youtube for some time - thanks for the link. Loads of insights there on many levels.
How PiCloud uses demand prediction and spot instances to lower AWS costs
This is in Microsoft's DNA. The more you're re-writing your apps "because everyone will have feature X of platform Y" the more you're not writing web apps that will ultimately make their platform irrelevant.

By iterating on non-compatible releases, you're forced to run on the upgrade/rewrite hamster wheel to take advantage of that feature the last version didn't quite have but should've.

Joel Spolsky coined it "fire and motion" http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html

"Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET - All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That's probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire. The competition has no choice but to spend all their time porting and keeping up, time that they can't spend writing new features"
Transcriptic: Core Developer

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Transcriptic is the "Amazon Web Services" for life sciences. Rather than carry out wet-lab experiments by hand, researchers can code up (or visually configure) their experimental protocols and then run them in Transcriptic's central, highly automated 'biocenter' in an on-demand way. Customers have no upfront capital costs and pay for only what they use. Life science research today is incredibly slow, error-prone, monotonous, and expensive with researchers spending many hours a day every day just moving small volumes of liquids from one place to another. We're building a long-term company to completely change the way life science research and development is done.

We're looking for highly talented full-stack web developers as well as combined background EE/CS engineers for automation integration and development. Experience reverse engineering USB based protocols is a plus.

We're a very small startup (you'd be #4), but well funded and have customers. You'd be able to work on interesting science and hard technology in a really small, all technical team with lots of freedom and resources.

A biology background is preferred but not strictly necessary for outstanding people. The codebase is mostly Ruby and Scala, with some Python.

max at transcriptic.com

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Appfolio is hiring security engineers and site reliability engineers in Santa Barbara, CA

Rails-based shop. We run our own servers in a colo. Small-ish company with great culture and nice people.

http://www.appfolio.com/jobs
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Newly-cataloged main belt asteroid gets name of 'Wikipedia'
danes are repeatedly voted most happy people in the world.
Are there honestly any Mojang haters in the world? These guys are just great.

1. Minecraft is an absolute work of art as a standalone game. The possibilities are endless and it works everywhere. It's simple to play yet is possible of incredible complexity.

2. Relative to the playtime, the game is actually very inexpensive, especially if you got the beta/alpha discount

3. Notch really seems like just about the most pleasant guy in the world and really just wears his passion on his sleeve. He's an easy guy to like.

4. Notch and everyone at Mojang really love video games and it shows. I always really respected guys like Kurt Cobain and Flea growing up because they always tried to give credit and lend their popularity to fellow musicians and influences. Everyone at Mojang does this and are surely leading kids toward a lot of great games. They even support the Minecraft clones.

5. It's been covered but Notch has used the massive profits of Minecraft in smart ways to build Mojang slowly and really help out the developers who make it possible. Great bunch of developers too, very public and responsive. They are also smart about what actually gets added to Minecraft.

6. Best community in gaming currently, hands down. The user made stuff is jaw dropping.

7. They continue to spend most of their resources working on Minecraft despite the fact that they are both working on other games now and could sit on their thumbs and rake in the cash on Minecraft if they wanted. Let users fix the bugs. You know, like Bethesda does.

8. Cutest mersh ever.
The women don't exactly look degraded. I can understand how people would be offended by this, but I don't see it being sexist. As they pointed out, both men and women were involved in putting together the booth, so it's not like this is universally offensive to women.
I'm extremely intrigued by this question:

What mentality would these children acquire? Will it be "play the game" or "fuck the system"? Will they lie, make other people lie, make everyone act as if they're honest; or would they break this grandiose lie into a million thawing bits?
EDIT (since it's too late to actually edit the post): IRC, not IRL. There's some sort of pun dangerously close to surfacing here, but since this isn't Reddit, I'm not going to resist taking the bait.
That guy knows how to explain stuff. I also like that those videos are short and he tries to keep it simple and focused on one thing.

I've tried to watch some videos made by Miško Hevery and others and they may be also great... but some of those videos are more than hour long and for me that is just a bit too much to swallow. Seems like there are so many unnecessary details that it makes it difficult to get and remember the important stuff.

John Lindquist seems to know how to gradually build up to more and more detailed knowledge... and I love it.
Is this the PlayStation 4? Sony says we'll 'see the future' on February 20th
Applebee's fires server for sharing receipt on Reddit
My 8 year old son wants to do the same. Have you found any resources that would be helpful for somebody with intermediate java skills (me) but no modding experience get up to speed with modding minecraft? Modding minecraft could be a great gateway for getting my son excited about programming.
Swedish to English translation: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=sv&tl...
When I was a kid we had fun drawing 2D pictures on our computer with 16 colors at 40x24 resolution. I think Minecraft is this experience but in 3D, at a much higher resolution, and in a dynamic world with your friends (it also functions as the de facto standard BBS for kids).
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"Building Authentic Relationships"? That sounds much better than the Javascript courses :)

Google does sound like an awesome environment, but, much like the post author, I'd like to try my hand at building a company.
I downloaded it shortly before an office party....And i spent the entire party playing the game. It is real neat!!!
A Tale of Two Beers
This is exactly what happened to a biotech's stock back in 2009.

http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2009/04/30/dendreons_st...

Basically the company was about to release the findings from a key clinical trial. The stock price would either soar or it would flop.

Tuesday 12pm * stock price is $25

Tuesday 12pm - 12:27pm * massive wave of selling starts the price of the stock dropping

Tuesday 12:27pm - exchange halts trading at $11.81

Mind you, at the exact same time as this was happening, the company was releasing very positive clinical trial data.

So what happened?

The guess is that some large trader did some investigating and found out that a lot of people had stop-loss orders on the stock. The trader slowly accumulated a large position, then rapidly sold off shares right before the announcement.

This caused the stock price to drop, which initiated a number of stop loss orders, which further eroded the stock price. Since it's a small company with a pretty small float, it doesn't take much volume to really swing the price.

The trader then bought back a number of shares (at a very reduced price).

The stock was back over $25 the next day.
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