skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where would the money come from to give someone a retirement at 50?

Well, it looks completely different if we take out the money from this situation.

Consider this: we have big unemployment, a lot of part-time workers, a lot of people not working because of disabilities, there are also millions of college and university students who are obviously not working full time. But the economy keeps going, it has no shortage of workforce, number of workplaces is limited and less than total number of people.

Then you propose to increase retirement age.

The number of workers will increase, but the number of workplaces is the same. Wages are decreasing, tax revenue is decreasing and we again have no money to pay welfare, pensions etc.
So we don't need more workforce.

Redundant workers rely on disability pensions, unemployment payments, food stamps etc. All these welfare programs have obvious deficiencies, but we need to feed the people anyway. If these people were working it would be much better. But there is simple way to increase number of working people without extra resources.

We just need to limit working hours. And it is possible, because it was possible to introduce 40 hour work week. Now cut it to 35, and you get 12% increase of number of working people and unemployment completely disappears.
For some reason I'm connected to this tech recruiter and I noticed the other day that this dude endorsed for pretty much every single technology under the sun.

LinkedIn endorsements are ridiculous.
Off Topic Question: As a compiler (C++ compiler esp) slides through its versions, it gets better optimising features and every newer version can produce faster binaries.

Can this cycle end? Or, will the cycle continue forever? (Like gcc 5 more efficient, gcc 6 even more efficient.....etc)
Ironically that's what the Argentinian President said one week ago http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2293564/Diabetes-ric...
That's interesting. You know when you don't know something it doesn't mean its not popular
C'mon, man--I know you can post better than this. :(
You wrote it first!
Since nurses & doctors work with so many patients, it's very easy for them to carry someone else's disease to another room with a weaker immune system.
If only I had a cheap and minimal ARM based computer running in the cloud I could run this cronjob on...
$20k.

And still no meaningful update: Re, a video proving these are real people and not some guy in his basement using images he found on google. Also no discussion whatsoever as to what they intend to do with the additional funding (with physical goods, the funding would generally scale up with the cost while in other projects, the greater funding generally allows for a scaled-up project. I don't expect that's reasonable for a 9 year old who has never programmed or designed a thing, so I'm really interested to find what will be done with the extra $19k and how it will adhere to Kickstarter's policies).
this story just set the stage to have the conversation about why women have a hard time in tech, and things like the difference between direct harassment (which everyone agrees is bad) and creating a hostile atmosphere (which lots of people don't get).
I'm going out on a limb and assuming this isn't "FernGully"?

Edit: Big Lebowski? For the curious (http://www.anyclip.com/movies/the-big-lebowski/KDCB4uut7hbbu...)
A web design masterpiece.....from hell.
Here is an another one from IBM
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/01/29/ibm-security-tool-can-fl...
Ah yes, the classic definition of democracy: two wolves and a sheep deciding what to make for dinner.
Google Launches Real Time API and JavaScript Library
> It's typical for one neighbor to call the nuisance abatement or police on another rather than actually go knock on the door to solve a problem. This is because they can offload all of the discomfort of confrontation onto an authority figure. The unfortunate consequence is that it makes the neighbor hate them, and things get worse from there.

See also: Donglegate. This reflex is thoroughly ingrained at all levels of society.
It is still not entirely clear to me why people allow the whole Facebook wall shenanigans. I've closed mine a long time ago, exactly because I never understood why would I want to mix in one place the public, the personal, and the intimate. The very idea of blurred boundaries is not sane, it's bound to keep creating problems (like the one you describe).
How To: Automatically Adjusts Ringer Volume By Assessing Environmental Noise
I think this is neat, though I wish the article had more details!

At first my reaction was obvious: "Well of course you can tell which employees are going to quit! If they're not getting paid well, don't feel like they have mobility, and don't have flexibility, they will move on!"

But so much of what you read about "what employees want" is both anecdotal and highly-personalized. Some employees want to work from home and others prefer face-time. Some folks want a decent salary, whereas others (like myself) choose something less lucrative in order to work at a startup. For some, upward mobility equates to a track to management, and for others a tech lead, and yet others just want to be left alone to write some darn code.

But if we can try and predict, using actual real data, what kinds of corporate knobs (raises, promotions, job rotations, etc) can decrease attrition, then that also means a company would be increasing job satisfaction in the ways which are important to employees. Why haven't we been doing more of this all along?
I hadn't decided, but it ought to be something basically irrelevant to the point, so not a country club or a networking event with potential investors. Maybe you were pushed by family obligation into visiting your spouse's rich relative at their lakeside property and all got invited next door to a barbecue. How's that?

They're all rich and friendly, they're basically "nice" people, and you're not rich in their league. They're "trying" to help you fit in, but somehow everything they say just helps to heighten the feeling that you aren't equal and don't belong. You roll with the punches, you aren't offended, but you are alienated. You'll make the best of the night, but next time you'll try harder to avoid going.

Which is fine for an informal night with strangers, but it's not the feeling a trying-to-be-inclusive professional event wants to invoke in significant fractions of the population. It's the difference between them "trying" to be friendly (in quotes - meaning acting how they would act to each other to be friendly) and actually being friendly in the all you have to do is whatever it takes sense.
If they're so technologically advanced in 2013, why do they need mom to help them get funding to go attend a camp where they are taught how to do something that they can learn freely online? Kids with none of these resources learned on their own against all sorts of adversity and lack of resources in the 80s and 90s. If you really have a passion to do something -- do it. You don't need a camp or an instructor or a mentor to guide you through it. You just do it, because it becomes a constant obsession.

I don't think this kickstarter is a scam (though it is certainly presented like one -- scammy projects usually don't have video of the people behind it and keep promising things that are never delivered, which goes for this one too since the mom keeps promising a video to show that they're real people and not some guy in his basement using google images of some lady and little kid for his scam).

I just think that it's a little unnecessary and is becoming really ridiculous and I'm tired of seeing stuff from parents all over the place posting things like "my kid wants to be a game developer, how do I get them started?". If your kid REALLY wants to do something like that, they aren't going to come to you and ask you to help them. They're going to get online and start googling, reading forums, reading books, downloading free programs and learning to code or design games on their own. If kids could do this in the 80s and 90s, they can do it today.

As for a publicity stunt? I don't know. It sure smells like a stunt for her mom's "give women money to do whatever" website. She'll go on from this project to claim herself an expert in crowd-funding and women's issues. She'll write a book. Become a consultant. Popularize her website. Give a few interviews.
You know, there was that 'labor movement' and typical working hours decreased in 200 years from 16 hours a day, 7 days a week to 8 hours a day, 5 days a week + vacations. It is a good reason for the lack of mass unemployment, isn't it?
All patents are by definition, publicly viewable. But you may be right in that figuring out which patents are associated with which technologies can be hard when companies have thousands of them.

One would think that Google would on average be better at searching through a large database of patents than any other company, though.
Long-term research: Slow science
Nokia's still little more than a blip on the smartphone radar. Their alliance with Microsoft was an effort to save their smartphone division, and it's affecting other areas of their business. First they laid off the entire Qt team, now they're attacking open standards. It's like SCO all over again.
Quiet Amy Poehler, no dongle jokes, there are ladies present!
http://youtu.be/KgmhhVCLgM8

I'm sorry but I disagree with your opinion. Women are welcome in the tech industry but many parents (not all) simply don't encourage their daughters to be programmers because in truth it can be a very unsocial introverted career path. Who really wants their kid to sit in a chair for 14 hours a day staring at a dull light. At first everyone loves the idea of little genius engineers until their kid is on the machine for a whole week and turns into a techno-zombie. If my kid has a passion for it then fine, if not then I am secretly relieved.

Sales, finance, construction, military, agriculture and religion (if you consider that an industry) could learn more from this lecture than the tech industry. I grew up working in construction and farming, interned for sales reps, and created tools for the finance industry. The tech industry is a woman's best friend compared to those work environments. At least in tech you can commit code and be solely judged by the quality of your work and not your sex, age, race, or physical abilities.
There is definitely an issue of matching skills to jobs and geography. That said, many companies that used to consider training and employee development no longer do so. So, even in locations where there is a workforce that might be trained for a job situation, companies aren't training...
Make sure you read Part 2: http://www.youell.com/matt/writing/?p=801
The fact that -40 C = -40 F is a random bit of trivia that not everyone can be expected to know. If it just said -40 degrees, it would be confusing to anyone who wasn't aware.
While the term is firmly established within the jargon (and with good reason, it's a good word to have in the jargon), I have enough distaste for much of Heinlein's work that I don't generally use the term.

I'd have to find some other way to climb your opinion ladder ;)
> And I'm sorry, but it's a Buyer's Market.

In what universe is this true. I don't want to imply anything but I feel like maybe you're not sure what "buyer's market" means. That would imply that employer's have large pool to pick from an those looking for a job are essentially lucky to find one. I don't think you meant that ... I'd hope if you are really in charge of hiring people you wouldn't think that because, I feel perhaps you wouldn't be the right person to be in charge of hiring due to not recognizing what is happening in the world at this moment (3/23/2013). :(

On a side note, I hear the thing about FizzBuzz a lot. I find it, personally, hard to believe that it is common for someone to pass an interview that probed to any depth, pass with flying colors, and not be able to code FizzBuzz. I would think the person directing the conversation was not doing a good job.

And the ++i vs i++ .. that's pretty basic stuff, I get that that's potentially part of your point, but that is just silly stuff.
That's not what I meant, although I see that the "it's Mac first development" thing didn't help. I agree with your point that the BSD heritage of OSX really positioned it well as a *nix dev platform.

I didn't say that Rails would have gotten farther on the Windows platform. That would be silly; you're assuming that because you're assuming I have misshapen lenses and / or am an idiot. I get that some mostly Microsoft devs are sheltered, but some aren't. I've worked with Mac and Unix going back a few decades.

What I said was that the native Windows / Node experience is probably better than the native Windows / Rails experience because the Rails community by and large really isn't all that interested in how it works on Windows (see link).
How on earth is that sad? It's a great thing that we are finally leaving all that old cruft in the past!
When everything seems to be going against you
Apple Google Samsung on the Smart Watch Race
Sorry I should have provided more background. Biden has been covered on HN extensively. No intention make a political statement just pointing out Biden's particularly poor decision making on issues I (we?) tend to care most about.

On privacy:
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/12/joe-biden-private-em...

On IP:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110413/12094013882/joe-bi...

On major internet issues:
http://gizmodo.com/5041044/vp-candidate-biden-is-no-friend-t...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10024163-38.html
That's actually why I love him though; don't get me wrong, I don't always agree with him. But I can count on him to always do what he wants (in the sense that he said he'll do X if he's (re-)elected, and he does), and do what he says he will. I can trust him to not stick by party guidelines, and not be forced into doing or saying something because it's politically correct. I find his brutal honesty refreshing, even if I don't agree with what he's saying or doing.
I mentally substituted "dim sum" for "a chinese buffet" because the latter just doesn't make any damn sense to me.
I honestly just don't agree with this. any templating language you use should work equally well on the client or the server and you should be able to get anywhere. we obviously consider other types of constraints than you do.
Linux Training With A Lab Server
I think it could be an OK question. I'd have to see it; if it is something sort of well known or a fairly arcane thing. It being 15 years old is not really that problematic to me. Python is much older than that. :)
Used to use this, then it was always down. Now use http://Jaconda.im. Always just works, has a convenient web interface as well for great room history.
I'm glad Bloomberg isn't going to be mayor for much longer (unless he figures out a way to overturn term limits... again).
> Ideally, none of us would ever have to work. Unfortunately, that isn't our reality.

Yet! Seriously, lets just focus on building robots to do things like build roads and buildings, tend farms, drive vehicles, etc. etc. We could almost definitely pass human efficiency in the next 50 years, and nobody would ever have to do manual work again (although if that's something somebody likes doing they should totally have the option if that's what they want).

Also, I'm not convinced a job in construction is "similarly skilled" to office and admin work. But that's kind of beside the point, it's possible to earn a good living from either manual or sedentary work. Sure, the extremely high earners are exclusively sedentary workers (if they work in the traditional sense at all), but that speaks to the wider problem of wealth distribution, where the fabled top 1% have 20% of the countries total wealth.
This is an important point. Technological progress goes very, very far back. It's what people do. In fact that might be a better definition of humans than to call them the political animal.
The NYTimes had a similar article a month ago describing the exact same Russian and Finnish populations and suggesting lack of microbes might be related to celiac disease:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/what-really...

I'm pretty sure there was a HN discussion on this, but I can't find it.

Edit: in reply to another comment, the article claims that the two populations are culturally, linguistically and genetically related, so genetics don't explain the differences.
Most of the patents in question probably read more like "method to send video over a network" than technical documents. Everyone in the space has some. What they are disclosing is which ones they intend to make a nuisance over.
In the extreme scenario you mention, we have effectively infinite labor. Provided we also have effectively infinite energy and resources (which is entirely feasible or only a matter of time if technology is that advanced), the value of all three of those things (labor+energy+materials) drops to zero.

That means we won't have to worry about employment. It will be an outdated concept.

But in the mean time, we also have nothing worry about, for the reasons I mentioned.
Read it. Awesome! So you what happened to the Startup? Did it fail?
MPEG-LA doesn't claim to have all possible H.264 patents in their patent pool. Nokia has an FRAND obligation for H.264, so it's obligated to license on fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory terms, but it has chosen not to be part of the pool.

MPEG-LA did not claim to have all possible VP8 patents either.

Note that MPEG-LA is basically a group that sets up convenient one-stop licensing, there's no such thing as being a "member" per se. You can be part of any of their patent pools, or not, if you believe you have essential IP.
Assuming it is real, what's the best theory? So far I've got time machine, prior civilization, or created outside of the Earth.
Smart Watch, the new 3D TV.
Dear god... it's... it's like watching a DVD.

Oh wow, every link has a voice intro. This is... this is quite impressive. I can only imagine what the Evangel Cathedral is like in person.

Edit: THEY EXPLAIN EVERY SINGLE THING YOU CLICK ON! It's like web 1.0 version 9.

Edit 2: Wow. Listen to the VO on their "Events" page. It sounds like this website is absolutely perfect for this church.
All the 2Advanced tricks of the 90s... today!
You lost me in caring about what the office looked like and what hardware you got. Who cares? I don't! I can hack on whatever; whenever; with whatever! PERIOD!

edw519's questions provoke conversation, where yours provoke sales talk.
Could Code Rot be Useful?
Billboard in Lima conjures drinkable water 'out of thin air'
Harvard extesnion school is a community college run by Harvard. Anyone can take classes there all you have to do is sign up, it's a great resource they provide to the community. IIRC it's ~900$ per class without credit and ~2000$ per class for credit.
God hates epileptics and the deaf, at least that's what this church must think.
Really curious about how much time it took to program this.
Python API for Pintrest
Pintrest does not have an official python API, but I wanted to see if anyone has attempted it and has suggestions. There are a few projects out there trying to accomplish this: https://github.com/richid/python-pinterest, https://github.com/creotiv/python-pinterest-api
I was pretty disgusted at how Blooberg news twisted the chronology of events to sensationalize the story.

Amanda Blum's blog post was far come comprehensive and fiar in describing the chronology of events.

https://amandablumwords.wordpress.com/2013/03/21/3/
I believe the Salt Stack guys have already got a crypto implementation on top of ZMQ that has been pretty thoroughly vetted. Might be worth checking it out and collaborating with them.
That's actually part one of the side effects of mechanization that I mentioned; not only does employment stay roughly the same, but we get better goods for less work. "The labor movement" had little to do with it; the amount of labor required for sustenance simply dropped to a remarkably small number of hours per day, thanks to technological advancement. The fact that we now have roughly 40 hour workweeks is simply how our culture responded to an exponential increase in productivity.

So I'm not really sure what you're getting at. Are you complaining that we get to work so little and have so much?
I feel like last time I saw this it filled my screen up a lot larger. I think I had a much lower res monitor last I saw this.
Impressive, but when I'm looking for a fully immersive business homepage experience nothing beats http://industrialpainter.com/
anecdote: I always ended up getting a cold whenever I joined a new hospital/clinic.
Also, as you get promoted, you acquire additional responsibilities which bring with them additional stress and frequently longer hours. Plus tedious or painful stuff like endless meetings and doing performance reviews and firing people. It can get old rather quickly, so you need to give people lots of money to convince them to keep doing it. If a company needs big data and guys with PhDs to figure this out, they're not paying attention to what's going on around them.

Some people say they'd write code even if they didn't get paid, but I haven't heard anybody say they'd be a manager for free.
I recently read a book about this very concept, the author went over hundreds of studies like the one you just read and has some interesting conclusions, in the book titled "An Epidemic of Absence"
Maybe that is why it is almost impossible to tell what the game play is like from their video.
http://instagram.com/p/W3htw7gaR5/
Posterous users, Posthaven is open to the public to save your posts
Please be civil. I asked you nicely when you were complaining about death threats and you ignored it. I've flagged that comment and the three comments since then. This isn't the place for sarcasm, all-caps, insults, or flame wars.
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The same guy has done a bunch of other church sites. It's a genre.

http://www.sharperfx.com/portfolio.htm

(Perhaps not surprisingly, a bunch of the sites linked from here have since switched to more... sedate designs.)
"It's a good start...I think we're almost there, but...It needs to Pop" (http://iampaddy.com/pop/)
Symbolic Senate Vote Demonstrates Support For Marketplace Fairness Act
More such things (and some good stuff too!) can be found here:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1arwld/what_site_...
Made by http://www.artisanblue.com/...

Otherwise known as "ab" so this is an 'abdesign' :)
Chrome ate my CPU on that site. I don't recall hearing my MBP fans run that loud, ever.
I thought I had produced the worst shit there ever was on the WWW and no...I had to come second place to this piece of shit.
I read the same thing, the article I read also said that Chinese encodes more info per sound so it sounds like the speakers are speaking more slowly. English was somewhere in the middle.
No, that's not what I'm saying.

The causal network looks like this:

S->O
|
V
D->A
|
V
H

S=sexism
O=other people being offended
A=Adria being offended
D=Adria being dishonest
H=Adria being hypocritical

We know that A and H are true. We don't have data for the others. O would allow us to conclude S. H suggests D, which explains A, causing A not to be evidence for S.

It's like how flying saucer cultists being visibly crazy is evidence against flying saucers if their statements were the evidence in the first place, but if you had actual radar tracks, then it wouldn't matter.
Http://www.ultimatearcade.com/game/bubble-shooter
I can buy trying to figure out allergies, but Type I diabetes? It's clearly hereditary, rarely showing up without some family link. Finland may have a high rate due to a lack of ethnic diversity.
>The mayor of NYC coming out strongly and decisevly against the surveillance state would be huge.

Bloomberg? Taking a stance for individual rights? You are a true comedian, sir!
Geez, I'd think it was kind of obvious! Promoting someone by adding more responsibility but no pay is a sure-fire way to get employees to leave.