skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been thinking about the supply-demand problem lately as it applies to
journalism. How is it different than other industries with willing pools of
suppliers, but people are still paid well?

There are many willing, raw-talented writers out there, and I also know that
high quality journalism requires a lot of work and dedication, so the number of
truly excellent writers is small. Likewise, there are many willing professional
basketball players, and only a very select few make it. But when they do, they
are extremely well compensated, despite a large pool of willing players. What's
the difference between basketball and journalism?

There is still a very strong demand for high quality basketball among the
public. Additionally, in this case, higher quality is relatively easy for
anyone to judge: you have better teams if they win more than other teams. In a
supply/demand context, many will play, but very few can do it well enough to
beat other professional teams so the real supply is actually small, so the
players' price is actually very high.

Comparing this with journalism, I wonder if there has been a decline in a)
demand for or b) ability to appreciate high quality journalism or essayism.
The demand for journalism is probably still reasonably high, but the public may
be indiscriminate. This expands the real supply for writing from those few
truly-excellent ones to a larger pool of mediocre writers.

So if we lament the decay of journalism, we might wonder why we're not really
demanding it.

----

I anticipate comments suggesting I am out of touch with the coming journalistic
transformation. I read and enjoy many blogs, even those put out by magazines
like the Economist, The Atlantic, the New Yorker, etc. But I recently began
reading the print versions of these magazines again and I was astounded at what I had
been missing: articles where I couldn't predict the next paragraphs based on
the headlines; articles that answered my objections in the next paragraph;
articles which clearly had taken a month to write. I know there's nothing about
print vis-a-vis html, but when you've worked for a month on an essay instead of
10 hours on a blog post, it shows.

I also anticipate comments suggesting I am an elitist. In this sense, I am:
taste exists. I won't claim that only the truly-excellent should write. But I
think they should be appreciated, and more importantly, aspired to. I worry
that talented-but-not-yet-truly-excellent writers will think: I can work for
years to become truly good at something no one will appreciate or I can just
blog my heart out at crappy journalism and make a living now.
As a workaround, you can close and reopen the console to get rid of the object browser. I also use Awesome, and it works for me.
Here's a playable, graphic, first person shooter. It's in 96kb.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.kkrieger)
This appears to discuss the per-dex method limit but makes no mention of the per-process limit.
also, people with annoying laughs :/
Great job on the presentation. It's immediately more impressive than your competitors. I'm looking forward to hearing some feedback from people that try it out.
It would be great if response bodies were easier to view. I have to enable logging and scroll to the bottom of the network request window to view them currently.

Also, thank you. The updated tools in FF20 beta have been fantastic.
I think you're generally right. But there are at least three more factors to consider:

1) the 3-year reservations have a lower per-hour pricing than 1-year

2) the 1-year instance you would purchase a year later will have a lower per-hour price than the 1-year today.

3) you can resell the 3-year instance on amazon's marketplace after you're done with it, so it has residual value.

So it all depends on how much prices drop, what resale values on the "old instances" are, etc.

All in all, the differences probably aren't huge unless you're at massive scale (eg Netflix, Heroku, etc). But at that point you probably negotiate with Amazon directly anyway instead of working off a pricing table.
Thanks @bobsy! I appreciate your kind words. Apple indeed does have a web version of iTunes to preview each app, here you go: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id467558411

best,

Jack

Founder, Balbus
site is slow
>> GPL somehow forces venture capitalists to believe his software is as important as he believes it to be

No, I don't think that is what he says in the essay.

Re-Read from the "I Don’t Want To Be Ignored Again" section of the essay for GPL and venture capitalists.
I made a video of the problem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly0Sp7lMKJU
My request would be a way to plug into the developer tools, similar to Firebug. That way things like Firephp logging woule be possible without the overhead of Firebug.
Thanks! I am running a current Nightly, do you know when this might land?

I am remarking today that on my system, Firefox must use less ram today than it did in 2005. Great work!
I think Nate Thayer seems to have over-reacted to the situation. The news requested by the global editor was commodity news; it wasn't exclusive content.

The problem with commodity news is not one of quality but of quantity. Much like any other commodity product, news is driven by volume. Unfortunately, demand has far outstripped the supply. In the absence of clear differentiators, organizations rely on SEO tactics, content marketing and social media tools as new distribution channels for news.

Most technology-oriented solutions, however, put a different tack to the problem. They approach it from the efficiency perspective. Acquiring news (or, reporting and writing news) is an expensive activity. In fact, were it not for journalists’ famously low salaries, the returns on investment for news acquisition would be unsustainable.
I think it's also worth noting that this kind of evil hack is a lot safer when you're only targeting older OS releases. That essentially gives you a fixed target. Changes in a new release won't break your hack, because your hack doesn't apply to new releases anyway. It's still awful, but much less scary.
I get the impression that many Linux users have specific old versions of software (often a window manager, which complicates the issue) that they want to keep using forever, but want to simultaneously use the latest version of some other software (like a browser).
Excellent initiative! I'd personally kill for a tool akin of Chrome's timeline, where to debug performance issues not related to javascript, like rendering e.g. things that trigger a complete screen redraw and whatnot. I'd really like to see this happen because at the moment if an app is super snappy on Chrome but slow on Firefox and javascript is not the culprit, I'm left basically to guess how to improve the performance.
gengo.com
Code Now relaunches as Runnable
Is down at the moment but really looking forward to checking this out.
Chrome does: http://i.imgur.com/KLmkYjH.png
Of course interest rates will climb -- what else are they going to do from 0.1%?

People have been making your predictions since January 2009. When's it going to start?

My prediction is specifically that inflation won't start until growth starts, at which point it's really much less dire than the picture you're painting.
The new retina MBP 15” have faulty fans management
It seems there is a miscommunication between the new Sandisk SSD and the SMC. As a result, the fans will go at full blast randomly.

I was able to reproduce the problem and made a video.
Yes. It is time to chase names rather than institutions.

We already do it most other professions. (Entrepreneurs, artists, Doctors, Lawyers etc)

One's personal brand can have credibility added to it by association with a large publication, but that association does not outweigh the value the individual brings. Especially if the costs associated with that publication no longer make sense.

As newspapers and online publishers continue to degrade their reputation through sponsored content (both off and online) and silly page view chasing slide shows and posts, the value they bring to the reader is also decreasing.

These institutions are failing. The individual or collaborative group of individuals is what will rise from the ashes.
I really dislike how chrome display :before & :after in the styles pane. More often than not these pseudo selectors contain quite important styling that's hidden away in the styles. Not sure how you can fix this, but there must be a better way.

Any chance you could remove the animation that appears when using the element selector? I find the flicker very distracting.
The Problem with Instructional Videos
I think I'm just used to the WebKit dev tools, but I find it requires more work to get to the Script tools, etc in Firefox than Chrome. For example, in FF I have to go to Tools -> Web Developer -> Debugger to get to the debugger. I can't just get there by doing "Inspect Element".

I'd like to see all the tools combined into one mode and allow me to pop it out into a new window. If I can do that right now, it's just not intuitive.

Also, it'd be great if FF pushed people away from Firebug, as I didn't know FF had built in tools and I was resorting to Firebug each time.

Just some thoughts. Great work!
The servo's estimator only slides up to 10. Does this imply that this is only intended for smaller customers?
I am self-employed, as is my wife. Most people I know with a spouse with insurance choose to stay on that instead, but it's often not really a better deal - it's just habit/convenience.
I would rather go to my favorite coffee shop. Comes with great coffee too! Lately, this has been my routine a few times a week in the afternoon. The change of environment has been quite effective.
Jerry Yang's Next Act: Startup Investor and Mentor
This kinda reminds me of that movie, 'Limitless'.
Great, more TDD evangelism.

I would love to see an empirical study proving the claims made about TDD in this article and numerous others.

It seems to me TDD is a huge waste of time when prototyping a minimum viable product. You want me to spend 2 hours writing tests for a feature that someone's going to tell me to rip out 15 minutes later? No thanks.

It's really easy to tell others to use TDD, and even admonish them for not using it. But unless you are the one in their shoes, you will not know the whole of their reality.

In a perfect world I'd write tests for everything. In the real world, I write tests for almost nothing. Most of the work I do is on stuff that might be gone tomorrow.
What about scrolling through testimonials from satisfied customers?

Have the testimonials fly by in an airplane ;)
I think there's probably more of a demand for high-quality journalism now than there's ever been, but I definitely think people's ability to appreciate it isn't there. Plenty of people would like to be able to read a 5,000 word essay, but simply can't.

And that's why I think focusing on the written word itself as the vehicle for high-quality journalism is a mistake. I don't think that's the only way to do it.
this sounds like a "plugin" use case?
As getting the precise volume is so critical, it would be nice if the volume-slider on the widget were wider, making it easier to find the right balance.
TDD is but one method of writing code; one that I've never found particularly useful. There's plenty of other things you can do to perform your job well.
What about some "livereload" capabilities?

http://livereload.com/

I know a lot of people who use it. And I think it would be great to have it native on firefox.
There is something jarring about the concept of jewelry designers pulling in mid-six-figures from accredited investors.
I mixed it with some Claude Debussy radio on Spotify.
> How about the most blatant redefinition -- from "a guy hacking trees with an axe"?

I'm not saying that words cannot get new meaning in some new emerging contexts. Languages evolve, that goes without saying. But when people start to deteriorate their meaning within the same context, mostly to be able to use these terms themselves, thus feeling a bit better or cooler (because these terms used to describe exceptional people), then something wrong is happening.

> As such, a lot of people here don't do deep hacking stuff. They do simple web services...

And it's fine, really. I'm not bashing HN community for submitting stories not worth of "hacking" (according to "old meaning", as you named it) emblem (it's really nice when such stories appear, though), because on-topic is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". I'm criticizing overuse of all hack* nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and what not. I believe that most people here can tell the difference between slick and shiny CSS date picker and system emulation done using JS for instance (to stay in the browser realm). Not everyone is like Bellard, but does it mean we need to redefine "hacker" to allow its wider use and prevent covering this term in dust as the time goes? Hell no.

> So, seeing that HN has tons of introductory or trivial Node, Mongo and similar articles, why should you expect to see the "old meaning" of hacker here?

Because it's part of computer-related legacy.

Doing fun things (everyone perceive "fun" differently) doesn't need to be hard and is quite healthy. Sharing and spreading the fun is definitely ok too. But let's not pretend that doing anything fun in CS field is immediately hacking, because it's not. HN is thankfully full of people aware of it, so I'm not afraid about HN future, yet.
and you're right! snakiness, forgiven
$500 * 50 years is still $25,000 over a lifetime. I feel safe in saying that that number doesn't come anywhere close to the damages that an average person actually causes. And besides, I paid about that much when living in the midwest for a stint, but around an east coast city you'll be lucky to get that price for half a year.

My master plan could similarly relate population density to accountability.

You have a good point about "luxury" assets (and certainly there would be many special cases like this to account for), but I'm not really talking about government insurance per se, because it's based on actual damages. If no car accidents happened in a year, nobody would pay any money.
How Old Magazines & Lamborghinis inform Flipboard’s design process and approach
Quirky Bob becomes Annoying Bob when he's down the hall and you have to deal with him every day.
> Them's weasel words right there. We all know that the important factor of size is the budget, which has grown by any measure you care to discuss.

It's not clear that, in economic terms, the size of the budget is the most important factor. Transfer payments, which go directly back into the private economy, do not have the same effect as other kinds of government expenditures. This is especially true for transfer payments like social security. Consider: young people would be taking care of old people even without social security. Social Security, in a sense, just brings those transfer payments onto the federal ledger. Is $10 billion of social security transfer payments, most of which would have happened anyway, the same in terms of economic impact as spending $10 billion to hire TSA employees or spending $10 billion to make bombs?
Make the native 'Inspector' tool go away. Accidentally opening that thing (because they're next to each other in the context menu and the labels are similar) instead of Firebug is infuriating.
If your needs change you can always list the EC2 Reserved Instance in the Reserved Instance Marketplace.
In a lot of cases you still come out net positive even if you trash the particular service during the latter half of 3 year term.

The lesson is more that you should pay attention to when the last reduction occurred for a given service, and the actual discount you're receiving for reservation. Another good consideration is how much of your time it takes to determine cost analysis against the fact that you're probably investigating cost savings in the tune of +/- 5-15% (EDIT: leaving this here, but this number doesn't make a lot of sense) of your total aws charges anyway.
I would say make Firefox as light and fast as possible by keeping ALL developer tools as addons. Most users aren't going to need them at all, so it's just eating up space for no reason.

I personally prefer Firebug over Inspector, so I would rather see you throw more resources into integrating it fully with FF.
Jason Fried is so cool, he knew how terrible Filemaker Pro was before it existed! (Alright… it was probably 1990 already. Just had to point out the potential anachronism of 25 years ago being 1988 and Filemaker Pro being released in October 1990.)
Likewise, Scala's "for" loop compiles to calls to map and flatMap, which are the same as Select and SelectMany, which represent the list monad. You can use map, flatMap, and for notation in lieu of a more generally named do syntax.
Thanks. So are you suggest learning other programming languages that would oppose my current understanding, such as scripting and procedural languages to solve problems so my understanding is more diverse? Just trying to see what your suggestion for my next move would be. Thanks again for all of your help.
Honesty and the Human Body
Show HN: New webapp - Digital scrapbook meets time capsule
First: Cool idea.

> Minimum investments from $1,000-$5,000.

Hmm ... imho that's too much for 'casual for the fun investing'. I'd be willing to 'invest' $250 into some cool idea just because I like it. But $1k is over my pain barrier for mindlessly throwing money at stuff and most probably lose it.

Also are there already startups signed up? I can't find a way to browse active projects.
How Amazon achieves excellence at scale
I'm assuming that the accredited investor requirement is still in place (i.e. this isn't the new JOBS investment opportunity)?
I see lots of people talking about it not working for them. I find the idea Genius! I haven't got anything done today, I'm going to start now with your product + the pomodoro technique and see if I can get things done.

EDIT : Okay I really can't focus while having this on the background. But I'm sure it's because I'm doing math. A task that would require less focus would be better with that kind of background. I need silence right now.
Is the new Chrome for Android as fast as Google promises?
My bad. Anyway, site has nice UI.
I find that firebug slows down the browser after a while of debugging. Memory leak? Make it faster :)
I think you may try a concierge approach (google it). I mean, found a potential user, one that loved your solution. Meet him in person, not just someone who came through ads. Someone in your broader social circle. Then, offer to help him by pursuing another users.

As you say the location is important, let me create a scenario and you say if this makes sense.

Go, you and your known early adopter, to a particularly crowded Starbucks. Then, go to either of the customers there and say something like "Hi, my friend wanna try this app "X". It happens that I founded the startup that created this app and would love to help him enjoy his first experience, and I hope you will enjoy it too. Do you mind giving me a couple of minutes to try it?"
Luckly you will get a few people to use your app. Early feedback. Real life product testing. Iterate, do it again. Iterate, do it again. Maybe you could give enough value so this people would continue to use it. You have some testimonials, some usage. Something to pitch local blogs and news. Then you have social proof, and start to grow from there.
> journalists in the grad program at Stanford are still totally defeated by data mining, web design (a skill they all know well for print), data visualization, non-linear storytelling, multimedia production,

> So what do we do?

You get journalists together with other people to do the other stuff.

Journalists shouldn't be noodling around choosing fonts and colors or drawing charts - they should be gathering information and talking to people and writing best quality articles.
Huh? As others have said, if you are bound by a service agreement or other obligation then you won't be going to another carrier anyway. That's all they're trying to say. You're being needlessly dramatic.
I'm happy to share with the HN community our webapp: It allows anyone to capture their photos, videos, webcam, music, text, and even the user’s own voice in a digital scrapbook, and then privately send and share their creation with others. The Capsoul can be delivered immediately or scheduled to arrive in the FUTURE. And the recipients get to download all the original assets.
Hey guys, congrats on launching. (this is the launch right?) As others said, your design/appearance is awesome and the pricing calculator is superb.

Some feedback:

* Seems like you're on AWS. I would like that to be disclosed:
when picking hosting these things matter, wouldn't you agree?
* Secondly, you don't seem to be protecting yourself from abuse: by charging
for docs you're on the hook of someone storing a ton of large
documents - think GridFS.

Anyway, congrats again!
"Of course one of the disciplines I'm talking about is TDD. Anybody who thinks they can go faster by not writing tests is smoking some pretty serious shit."

Why do so many TDD people think that people who don't use TDD don't write tests?
Okay.

> I figure the license doesn't matter too much

Read Zed's essay ;-) If nothing else, it reinforces "street cred" :-)

>> the real utility is the policies you write to control your servers

+1 for that point.... especially in the context of the discussions in the recent thread on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5316093 (@robomartin's comments in the beginning)
It doesn't sound far fetched if company tells you to fly across the world, that they would pay for it. However would they also pay for your family to come (if you got wife/kids)? Seems like a pretty bad requirement if there's an ocean between your immediate family - wouldn't feel right to me.
Facebook denies "bait-and-switch" with promoted posts
Sorry - have seen my mistake, but there's no Edit link...?
The important step I think here is that the developer not used the initial HTML prototype as a template when building the application.
He just looked at it and produced code that output code who have a similar visual appearance but probably with different HTML structure who work well with the code.

If the code was written just to fill some holes in the original prototype, basically replacing some hard-coded strings, the developer would have less liberty on how to code lending to something less efficient and less elegant.
I'd love vi keybindings to navigate the console and web inspector.
I actually haven't taken them in over a year. Not too worried about any slippery slope.
Meanwhile Top Models Falls On Ramp During Fashion Show
All you said has been implemented in Firefox Aurora.
Developers, learn to design
>Noodling around choosing fonts and colors or drawing charts

Yeah, 'noodling around', like this guy: http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/index.html

Design done well increases understanding. Data visualization done well increases understanding. They are integral to high-quality journalism, not a decoration to place around it.
That new Inspector thing is really annoying. I always accidentally open it instead of Firebug. From a developer stand point, Firebug stills beat all other browser dev-tools by a mile and is the main reason I still have Firefox on my dashboard.