skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally, I think relating this to productivity is a flawed benchmark, though it is interesting to think about. The idea of tying it to the rate of increase for top executives (the 1%) is also specious. It would make more sense to tie increases to inflation, which we have not done[1].

Ultimately, minimum wage should be set so that an individual receiving it would be above the poverty line, otherwise, what the hell is the point? So for 2012 we should be around $11/hr. If you want to argue that you should pay your people so little that they'd be in poverty, then you should find a different country.

[1]: http://www.raisetheminimumwage.com/facts/entry/amount-with-i...
What information do you store on your servers?
Curiously, no such link appears in the "Internet Defense League" email, the submitted link, the EFF's FAQ, or the EFF's action page.
Facebook Hires Co-Founders Of Trustworthiness Verification Startup Legit
Solving V2V Part 2: Make it Phone to Phone
Wonderful! While I hesitate to break a $1,100 video card, a little hack generates so much value.

What other awesome hardware hacks radically improve the value of your equipment, be it electronic / analog? We're talking about the 100%+ value improvements here.
Agreed, it could take time. And with a small gap it may never happen, but that just means the pain point isn't all that painful. Otherwise the gap would be larger.

I guess it depends how eager you are to have government get involved and attempt to make things right. I generally have little faith in government meddling resulting in a net positive.
Show HN: Flame graphs for Ruby on Rails using MiniProfiler
Nope. It was a Pilot and they are not sure about doing more exomes.

From my last chat with Brian Naughton (their lead informatics guy) about this, it sounds like they are planning on doing more sequencing in the future. But it could be whole genome and it may be geared more towards research (your selected based on your phenotype) than open to any customer.
ScanPay Bring Credit Card Scanning in Europe
Benedict Evans is usually very sensible. But this time he's way off. Samsung isn't anywhere near being able to replace Google's ecosystem, which has been getting much stronger over time.

Google Now, for example, is going to be as important as Maps and navigation in acquiring and retaining users.

Outside of China, where there are at least two Android derivatives growing their own ecosystems, only Amazon and, on a much smaller scale, Barnes & Noble have Android derived products that are sold without Google's services.

I have often criticized Google for being hard to work with for second-tier OEMs. Many of those devices that go without Google's ecosystem built in do so for no reason except that Android licensing is so opaque.

Perhaps Google will now stop leaving money on the table. All they have to do to expand their "share" of Android is answer the phone.
The problem is that it is doable to create an encrypted email client, but the problem is how does one then send this off encrypted to a gmail account? There's no practical solution to handle that unless you want everyone to be on the same server, which then makes email pointless since there would be better solutions. But, unless google and the other big players adopt encryption, there's really no real way to do it streamlined.

I would, however, recommend adopting PGP, as that seems the simplest route to go.
The cost of living would also be much higher if minimum wage was $22/hour. A raise in minimum wage does not equal a raise in minimum spending power.

Many businesses will also cut some of their jobs because they just can't pay a minimum wage that is that high (but the job might be available if it was lower).

You might have an increase in spending power for the short time that it takes for the economy to catch up.

Look at Denmark or Sweden. Minimum wage is high, but it also costs almost $10 to buy coffee at 7-11.
Where exactly is Apple a monopoly?
>If you own Bitcoins, you should prepare for the very real possibility that one day, depending on arbitrary state or USDOJ enforcement actions, you may never be able to convert your Bitcoins back to dollars.

There are potential loopholes here. You can still buy liquid assets with bitcoins and sell those assets for cash. For example, you can have a provder that sells gold for bitcoins, and buys gold for cash.
Cook Your Own Food. Eat What You Want. (Think for Yourself.)
I've recently been using a bit of circuitlab for throwing together diagrams for lab reports. I've found it to be much faster and much less of a hassle than using pspice.

I've had very few issues using it over the past few months, but since the founders are probably eyeballing this thread I'll lay out some of my suggestions here.

-If I try to export an unsaved circuit, I get a prompt pestering me to save my circuit before exporting it. This happens nearly every time for me since almost all of my circuits are quick no-nonsense stuff that I spend 30 seconds on. I suggest that when I try to export an unsaved circuit, it gets automatically saved to my folder as _exportedCircuit[0/1/2/3/..]. At the very least make the export button bring up the save prompt if I press it with an unsaved circuit.

-The components are a bit of a hassle to navigate. To reach any one component, I have to do loads of scrolling through that menu on the side. Often I'm looking for a component, get halfway to the bottom, and wonder if I had missed it. It would probably be better to implement the component box with the components of each category nested under a category button.

-Virtually all of my exported circuits are going into a word document. The first time I did an export I had to measure how wide my word document was in pixels so I could get a full resolution image on it without going over the pagelimits. I suggest implementing an alternate export size field for exporting the image in terms of width/height in inches of a standard word document.
Yeah, dude (Will Walmsley, CEO and lead designer) mixed it around dawn. Next time we'll hire a sound person. --Mark Thompson
Marketing for what? There's nothing being sold, he lists the items he uses and amounts. Why would a marketer give away the secret sauce.
If you read his words carefully, he said he "read a book on number theory." He didn't claim mastery. Ditto for differential geometry. He simply absorbed source material and took notes. Quite feasible.
Agreed. The "flaw" they claim they have "discovered" is a browser feature, and an old one at that. I have problems with plenty of other Google features, but it's outrageous to blame Google for something one's browser does every time one clicks a link on any website anywhere.
For all the remote working threads we have seen on HN the past years its good to see folks try to push the barriers while not over-cluttering the experience of on-demand communication. I'm a remote working CTO. I value efficiency, I value personal communication, and I value quite time. I welcome and encourage all the progress we can make in remote working.
>>> help(method)

usually tells you.
If you have a reserved instance that is in the running state but you aren't using it, then yes. If you have a reserved instance that isn't running then that slot is likely available on the spot market.
When people refer to their email address as an "addy". Drives me crazy. Why do they do it ????
I can't wait for the Kickstarter.

But, it seems strange that this is coming from one guy rather than big companies. If it is possible to sell food/food replacement for cheaper this way, why hasn't anyone jumped on the chance to outsell others by selling for less?
What I want to see is the ability to inspect websocket traffic like Chrome has.
++ for sharing the source.

Most people on HN would be able to checkout and build the app, so why not just use iAd and offer an in-app purchase to remove ads (1$) for the version in store? That way you could collect some revenue and subsidize the cost of the developer license.
This a riot. Thanks for the laugh :)
This collection is gold! "Frank Sinatra has a cold" is the grandaddy of all celebrity profiles, or all modern journalism. Susan Orlean's "The American Male at Age Ten" is such a good and accurate depiction of childhood. And of course DFW's pieces are great.
"Value is not the market price"

Who said it was?

"the value of something to a given person is the maximum price the person is willing to pay"

Which is dependent on the supply and demand of that "something."

"BTC's unique feature is the instantaneity and anonymity of transactions."

"Instant" in the "10-30 minutes" sense, and anonymous in the "you can be tracked" sense...
I don't think the goal or desire was to raise it to $22/hr, but merely provide some illustrations (certainly flawed) about how inadequate the minimum wage is today. It is certainly true that with increases we would see a decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar. I'd love to read something from an economist on this, I certainly don't know what the exact answer is.
Message in their website: They have joined Facebook :)
http://www.legit.co/
Whatever happened to not alienating long time thinkpad users?

Presumably long time thinpad users switched to macs, is what happened.
The same page says,

> No activity threshold applies to the definition of money transmitter. Thus, a person who engages as a business in the transfer of funds is an MSB as a money transmitter, regardless of the amount of money transmission activity.

So, the $1000/day threshold appears not to apply to money transmitters.

(I'm not a lawyer)
You are making me laugh. As Minuum's marketing guy, though, it hurts my feelings that you missed the "CTA." --Mark Thompson
This is a re-post. I just wanted to find the old discussion again. It's a good article in any case, read it, if you haven't already.

I appreciate pointers to the old discussion on HN about it. Thanks!
Great points. I would also add awesome developer community around Drupal project. It is not about Dries anymore, it is about community his project created. Hooks system in my opinion is just a reflection on how community works.
"Instead, I would like to know what is your recommendation for an easy to use, safe and practical way to encrypt my email communication that I can set up right now?"

None. Although, thinking about it right now, it might be possible to develop a simple Chrome extension/userscript to provide easy encryption/decryption for clients using PGB or some other method. One could have it plug straight into gmail (or any other client) and decrypt on demand / encrypt.
How to Install Wallch Wallpaper Changer in Ubuntu 12.04
You are right that they could use a carefully crafted API to work around the problems. Its also true that yields across C were added in 5.2 but you need to code the C functions in continuation-passing-style using a special API to take advantage of that.

http://www.lua.org/manual/5.2/manual.html#4.7
Ten Years of Sloth
I'm not sure, no.

However:

In addition, a person is an exchanger and a money transmitter if the person accepts such de-centralized convertible virtual currency from one person and transmits it to another person as part of the acceptance and transfer of currency, funds, or other value that substitutes for currency.

Consider a common flow of:

speculator USD -> counterparty -> speculator BTC -> counterparty -> speculator USD

The transaction in the middle has the speculator exchanging BTC between two parties without any goods or services changing hands.
This is awesome, thanks so much for the link! I am currently in the process of building an application that can greatly utilize ScanPay.
Have you ever had a conversation with a banner ad?
Like many web programmers, I spend a large portion of my day coding, thinking about, or looking at banner ads. However, I have seen very few banner ads that are as engaging as the Target Ad on top our new site, Fast Co.Labs. In fact, I think it deserves mention, so I'm writing about it. It reminds me a bit of ELIZA, if you remember that? http://www.fastcolabs.com/accelerator/
I think bitcoins real value to people is it's a P2P solution to the double spend problem.

"monopoly money, or acorns, or lumps of clay" can be created almost indefinitely. Of course BTC can too, but must be done by forming consensus amongst the majority of the P2P systems. Lumps of clay you don't need consensus. Just more clay.

"What drives the citizens of a country to use the currency issued or authorized by that country's government?"

Legal Tender law. If a debt is offered to be paid in 'legal tender' and the debtee refuses to accept it, the debtor can have the court discharge the debt under the law.
This is great. Thank you so much for showing me this.
This is a good point. My thoughts are that Soylent and other cheap concoctions have a large acquired taste that most consumers can't get over.
What you need to do is get in touch with wedding and special events people. Also what kind of proter do oh have? Mine was a prototype shitty photo printer from Walmart.
Ah, Bumpgate and BGA soldering problems.
I have two nearly new Thinkpads right now and I don't need a 3rd laptop. But with this shit hitting the market soon, I am contemplating ordering a T530 and perhaps an x230 in top configurations and keep them in a closet for future use.

After this pinnacle of Lenovo engineering goes on sale there won't be a single laptop on the market worth using.

Not sure what I think of Apple right now. On one hand, they catapulted the laptop designers around the world into producing this crap. On the other hand, by creating the iPad they've started the process of moving consumers off laptops into dedicated facebook terminals AKA tablets, so perhaps the high-res IPS screens with quality keyboards+trackpads will soon be offered again for a premium price.

I am rooting for Dell here. Now when Lenovo is gone, their Precision series is probably the closest one to take advantage of this.

Does anyone want to apply to YC with a novel idea: make computers for people who make money using computers?
That's wrong impression I gave, I am sorry.

My point was - if US government will make hard or impossible converting bitcoin into usd, they can't claim you owe them any taxes if sole income you get is in bitcoins. Or they have to accept it in bitcoins.

As an analogy - let's say you made business where whole income is produced via bartering and in goods, not currencies. Let's imagine that us government made some law which prevents you from exchanging these goods to USD which is the only tax payment option. How you can pay taxes and from what amount?
All the time you "save" with this sort of bullshit diet will be spent in a hospital sooner than later.

You need your fucking vegetables, you need fruit, you need to chew and you need to sleep. It's as simple as that.
That's not a Lenovo, that's a Toshiba. Great. The one computer no one had managed to fuck up.
" The trackpad now has five buttons which you can customize for Windows 8 gestures via the device driver. There are subtle red lines on the surface indicating the trackpoint buttons. "

I'm going to keep calm and assume that these trackpad buttons work perfectly while using the trackpoint.

At least they didn't change the key laout again. I just got used to the new layout. It takes more effort to use though. There's a horrible wrist-crank that goes on while trying to page down with a pinky.

Anyway, I'm hoping my next computer will be little more than a keyboard (thinkpad travelnav) with something like a raspberry pi at the bottom and hdmi display glasses.
I think he's missed the point of SaaS
I bought one from a vending machine in Heathrow that took cash.
They can make you pay because they're the government. They would make you pay taxes on the fair market value of the goods. http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc420.html The prohibition of exchange most likely would not enter into it, because that would be a completely separate law from the tax code..
I can't believe they left the pageup/pagedown right near the arrow keys. I hit those by accident several times a day.
> anyone could mix it up and try it

Some people have. He says as much in the blog entry that various folks have let him know they've replicated it and tried it.
My Podcast Notes Experiment
I've recently started a little project and a friend suggested I share it and my future findings here.
The product is a blog that provides enriched (ie. provides context and purchasing/streaming/reading links) shownotes for arts and culture podcasts. For example if NPR's All Songs Considered does a SXSW episode you'll find a post on Pearcaster for each album/artist they had a serious discussion about with an embedded Bandcamp/Rdio player and links to Amazon/iTunes for anyone who wanted to buy it.
There are a ton of reasons why this might never get off the ground but I'm thinking of it as a learning experience as much as anything else.
My main hypothesis is this - people will value enriched shownotes that are centralized.
Podcasts do an amazing job of curating and recommending content but when I hear of something great I seldom follow up on it unless I'm reminded by another source later on and at a time when I'm at my computer. I think there's room for a product that builds a better bridge between the pitch and the product.
This is why you don't piss off your userbase. Also this should be mirrored as this will be taken down fast.
I think those providers will stop accepting bitcoins when you can no longer convert them to USD. There isn't enough other essential goods and services that people are willing to trade BTC for yet.
That it's technically 'opt in' doesn't matter much if it biases the incentives for bulk sharing. Agencies can say: "Share anything potentially cyber-crime-related with us, companies, and you'll get blanket immunity, for not just the sharing but all 'decisions' made from the info we give you." Zero risk from sharing, and possibly wind up on law enforcement's 'shit list' for withholding? That makes wide sharing the only thinkable option for risk-minimizing companies.

The terms "cyber threat" and "cybersecurity crime" are very expansively defined in the bill text previously referenced (http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr3523/text). It looks to me like every federal crime where a computer is involved is covered, including unauthorized acquisition of copyrighted material. The lawyers at the EFF and elsewhere also seem to think CISPA will be usable in intellectual property investigations and prosecutions. What's your reference that it's not?

The Swartz prosecution wasn't about mere ToS-violations and it's disingenuous of you to suggest that. ToS violations aren't even mentioned in the original Swartz indictment (http://web.mit.edu/bitbucket/Swartz,%20Aaron%20Indictment.pd...). Swartz's actions, and Auernheimer's, were prosecuted under the CFAA, and the CFAA is specifically named in the CISPA bill text as one of the definitional sources for applicable 'cybersecurity crimes'.

You're giving an awful lot of weight to what prosecutors and law-enforcement say this bill will do. But they tend to downplay new powers when they're being discussed, and then expansively interpret them after passage (and until yanked back by the courts). That's why the EFF and ACLU -- expert organizations who actually fight court cases under this sort of vague language -- should be trusted on matters of practical effects once passed.

And given how bills can expand through amendments to include law enforcement wishlist items at any time, the suggestion that this bill needs no well-funded opposition makes it more likely it will grow into something even worse, via amendment or expansive interpretation. The warnings from privacy advocates that you're criticizing, on the other hand, help make sure CISPA will fail or be better-limited through the amendment process.
Would anybody be seriously interested in this? I'm currently writing code for a printshop that does fine-art reproductions of various size on paper, canvas, and stretched canvas.

We're somewhat under our print capacity and I could easily justify the time building an API on next to our shopping cart and fulfillment backend if anybody has genuine demand for on-demand high quality prints and reproductions.

Shoot me a message: collintmiller@gmail.com if you'd use the api.
"Nothing material-wise has changed with the hinges, and we kept them visible so you still know strong the laptop is."

Translation:
"Don't pay any attention to the body that is made out of cheap plastic, look at these shiny metal hinges!"
I wish I could start over
I am 30 years old and regret deeply many decisions I have taken (or not) in my life.

When I was about 14, I learnt to program by taking a C language course and over a few years because quite fond of programming. I made quite a few single module programs, games, learnt bits of a lot of different things - x86 assembly language, openGL, +ORCs How to crack tutorials, GTK+ and QT for Linux etc etc.
I studied Electrical Engineering in college and pretty much stopped programming all of a sudden. I had lost focus completely. The courses were "okay", but I never felt really curious like the way I felt whenever i spent time programming.

After college I took a job in an "IT services" company and stuck to "maintaining" COBOL programs for over 5 years.

And then suddenly about a year and half back, I woke up to the fact that I had pretty much wasted 9 years .

I convinced my manager that I wanted to move to Java because I hadn't done much more that IF ELSE END-IF in COBOL over the 5 years! I learnt Java, familiarized myself with the Java EE stack - got interested in Object Oriented thinking, spent time trying out smalltalk. Thought smalltalk was so awesome, that made me explore some more. On the way I discovered Haskell, functional programming, Lisp and and most recently Clojure.

So, looking back at the last 1.5 years - I feel I am in a little bit better place, but still can't imagine why I wasted the previous 9.

I haven't made any great pieces of software, yet - so I am quite not there. The more I read, the more I come to feel that taking a Computer Science course at college would have given me so much of the theoretical grounding I feel I lack now. I want to write parsers, compilers and other great software that I think my knowledge limits me from significantly.

I wish I could start over. Any advice?