skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most jobs are selling your time in exchange for money. If your time is mostly fungible compared to someone else's time (ie. most low-skill labor), then I'd say all the algebraic equations expressed in the OP are true. He is essentially modeling supply/demand curves of typical scenarios involving "human capital."

In the past, the value of human capital -- the amount you got paid for selling your time for money -- used to be more lucrative. At one point nearly half of Americans were in a labor union, which artificially constrained the supply of human capital so it would be worth more. Conversely, our previous industrial revolutions required a great deal of human capital (building factories, sewers, etc), generating lots of demand that would keep the value of human capital high. Due to political and technological changes, this is basically no longer the case.

If you're a software engineer, then none of these models apply to you because you are high-skill labor (also sometimes called "talent.") You're paid for your time, but your productivity can be orders of magnitude higher than your pay. In the OP's "expendability of labor" graph, the "sweet spot" is enormous. In my nearly ten years as a software engineer, I've seen colleagues laid off/fired for all sorts of reasons, but none of them were due to, "well we did the math, and we decided your production is not worth your salary." I've seen layoffs where the executives literally admitted they would make less revenue/profits due to the lost productivity of the laid off workers not offsetting the savings in salary, but they had to hit a certain "profit percentage" or some other absurd reason that justified the layoffs.

In any event -- I've thought a lot about the macro-society impact of this new model of economy, if we're truly destined for a world where human capital is just not that valuable. My interest in politics and healthcare has largely been based on this -- what should we consider "subsistence living," and what happens if we reach an inflection point where most jobs paying for human capital are below it?

It's possible, of course, that this will all be moot, and our next industrial revolution will have a huge demand for locally-based human capital (e.g. a "renewable energy industrial revolution scenario," where there is a huge demand for laborers that can install solar panels on houses, or something), and the median income for Americans will increase. Or it's possible for a more gradual shift to happen (e.g. the graying of the baby boomers causes a gradual increase in demand for local caretakers of the elderly). But I'm not sure it's a good idea to just assume that will happen.
I'm your primary target. The site isn't mobile friendly and I can't really tell what your app does since I can't read the site.
I love driving up into the mountains here in Colorado on a clear night. The stars are just..dazzling. They very much look like one of those photographs.
This study is nonsense. They ask nonsensical questions such as "Do you believe in science?". They are also using this fad protocol where they have someone (nearly always an 18-21 yr old white college student) read an article then test their opinions on things before and after, and then make grandiose claims regarding what that implies. This is not science, this is pop-psychology.
Hyperbole is unbecoming. Google's mission is to organize the world's information, to give you the best answer to questions, not to send you to "the best site". Sometimes the best answer is a site, sometimes it isn't. Very few users want a search engine that sends them to a linkfarm or another search engine, they want answers in the fewest number of steps. If I ask what the weather is, I want a temperature and immediate forecast, I don't want to have to click through to Weather.com and initiate another 2 dozen HTTP requests for extra resources to get the answer, especially for mobile. I'll click through to another site if I want an extended 5 or 10 day forecast, or I want something beyond factual data.

Since Knowledge Graph was introduced, there are now millions of queries that don't even show any ads at all. For example, I search for "Hawaii" on Google (just did it in an incognito window), and I get a Knowledge Graph card and zero ads. I do it on Bing and I get travel ads for Alaskaair.
Looter mentality, bosses and jobs just exist? Be grateful for the opportunity to have your efforts compounded by the contributions of others. If you were alone on an island, what would you have to show for your work at the end of a day? A meal? Temporary shelter? Even the lowest wage jobs offer us security, health, and a life much easier than our ancestors. Don't like what a job can offer you create one? Think you're worth more? Be your own boss, if you succeed then you'll create jobs and you can be the change you want to see. What has happened to our generation that everyone thinks they have something coming to them and are slighted by those who succeed? Want your fair share, then take it.
A really great way to see a place like a local is to use Couchsurfing(.org) for your accommodations - more often than not your host also ends up being a tour guide.

(Disclosure: I work at Couchsurfing, but I was a very satisfied user before I was an employee.)
The problem with the theory around mid-range-λ-jobs is that people with a non-zero t can compete for jobs as well - for example, they may have increased their skill level through training, volunteer work, formal education, or there could be a flood of skilled workers following layoffs at a competitor. A skilled employee is therefore potentially competing both against 'green' replacements and skilled replacements.

At times when there is a surplus of skilled employees, the market price for skilled employees will tend towards the marginal cost of living for skilled employees, which is roughly the same as the costs of new employees, and so new employees would be prevented from gaining experience on the job (they could offer to work for less than their cost of living in the hope of a future payoff from their skills, but even that won't necessarily make sense to the employer, because the employer has costs per employee beyond just wages and employee benefits, and it might still be cheaper to hire fewer skilled employees at a higher price than to incur more per-employee costs hiring more unskilled employees at a lower rate). On the job learning therefore becomes less relevant, and new employees are forced to overcome the activation costs through other means, or try a different industry. If there is no credible alternative to on the job learning, this might cause a dynamic effect where the attrition of skilled employees combined with an absence of trained new employees raises the skilled employee price towards the utility to the employer, and makes it cost-effective to take on new employees again.
You left off three words from the quote in the NYTimes article. "...and Jew lies" This is quite the omission.

The full quote is 'Spamhaus acted, he wrote, “without any court verdict, just by blackmail of suppliers and Jew lies.” When I read that, I get a very different picture than simply one of an aggrieved businessman working in a grey area.
Loveopolis Named LaunchVT Finalist
Um am I the only person who is surprised that the OP doesn't know that flexitime has the concept of core hours a 10 oclock start is not unreasonable.

Though he's right teams should know how how to run meetings and Action Points.
Cool stuff :]
Not a Starcrafter (term?) at all so I can't comment on the app itself, but your site looks beautiful on my laptop - the parallax effect is great, and the scrolling takes advantage of it despite being only a few screens long (which is for the best). Nice work!
Both Ubuntu Touch [1] and Firefox OS currently has ports to numerous models of phones which you can flash if you unlock it (albeit most highly unofficial).

Usually these are Android-phones, already open-source friendly and easy to build for. You will find all the relevant details in the appropriate sub-forums on XDA. If you want to try them today, you can.

This should definitely not be confused for vapourware.

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Devices#Work_in_progress
My friends are pretty cool, with similar and different types of experience, but that's private in email.

I wonder how many large or small communities exist in email? I guess only the NSA and Google knows.
No, have standups to have an easier way to share information than a tool.
Not the OP, but I think for example that psychology "sins" a lot when it comes to "reproducibility" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproducibility). Then again, I'm one who also thinks that the only true science is mathematics.
Wow yes I agree first time I hear reCAPTCHA. I am seriously wondering whether ANYBODY is able to solve this. I know it was broken before but now it seems reCaptchaing something means straight up denying it to visually impaired people.
Proving that EMH is false requires revelation of a profitable method or at least a statistically significant edge, which then makes it vulnerable to getting exploited away. It's actually more useful if the public believes in EMH and in traders' best interest to keep their edges secret.
Huh? Well, yah, duh. It's better than me going out and acting as my own agent of violence to beat you myself... I personally think that a legitimate state has a legitimate monopoly on violence.
I think all CAPTCHA solving "services" that offer reCAPTCHA solving rely on human work, and thus work on a delay (which obviously is just a minor inconvenience for any mass spamming operation). Here's a pretty nice article about it.[1] ReCAPTCHA itself remains unbroken to date (and it sure has gotten harder over the years too).

[1] http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/01/breaking-captcha-with-automa...
Black* nail varnish performs a similar function to the Band Aids.

* other colours may be available.
Just because a field sprinkles numbers around doesn't make it a hard science. By that definition, marketing research is a hard science.

What is psychology's unifying theory? Biology has evolution, physics has the standard model. Psychology has, what? Please, do enlighten me.
Security by "no one would be that stupid"
From the description of the study, you could also argue thinking about science makes you more likely to take texts at face value (a willingness to make the mental leap from reading a story about John to judging John's actions) and encourages Manichean black-and-white thinking (moving closer to the 100 of absolute condemnation)
You know you've pretty much hit rock bottom as an industry when people are complaining about Robert Scoble being mean about their fake business that they created while on a bus to an expensive party.
There is protection against spawn camping, in secure space. If you are going for nullspec, you are supposed to have corporation backing etc (although this comes someone who haven't played EVE much). UI is bit cluttered, but given amount of information it actually provides it is quite good.
I would worry less about the name, and more about using Blizzard's assets ... The player's avatars and the units/races/leagues icons are ripped straight from them.
It is small things that start to undue big companies be that mass merchant retailers or tech companies.
One thing I liked about my time as "dog-collar labor" is that all my co-workers had interesting non-work pursuits, and there was no penalty for leaving work behind to engage in them. None of us mistook our stints as cashiers, food servers, or book store clerks for our passions, nor did our employers.

There was refreshing frankness that the whole thing was just business, nothing personal: no, we weren't enticed with company-paid meals, but we also weren't required to work limitless overtime.
I seem to recall, bottlenose dolphins have been known to attack and kill spinner dolphins for "fun" (i.e. they don't eat the dolphin afterwards). Cats play with mice before finally killing them. That's, in my mind, as close to an "experiment" as you get in nature. Don't assume humans are the worst animals out there: while we have our horrible streaks, if we gave our mental capacity over to other animals (say, chimpanzees), the world would be no prettier. At least we've mostly eliminated the murder of our rivals' children so that we can impregnate the mother, unlike our closest genetic relative.
Unlikely. The main problem is that calling a tradition "non-scientific" or "not hard science" also has a pejorative meaning. And there's an unfortunate mystification of science as something other than a mode of inquiry, with its limitations and advantages. Plus, people gain funding by hitching themselves to the social respectability of science.

In the case of psychology, they're studying something of great interest which happens to be far too complex for easy scientific study. (Take for example the physicist; once the object or system under study becomes too complex, it's tossed to the chemist, who in turn tosses overly complex things down the line...)

(I've heard similar analysis from some scientists. I vaguely recall Chomsky recently gave a lucid explanation in his talk "The machine, the ghost and the limits of understanding: Newton's contribution to the study of mind", as well in a couple books he wrote. For his part, he thinks linguistics is in a pre-galilean phase. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5in5EdjhD0)
http://imgur.com/2B7Rw57
Well, I'm not a much of a fan of angry teens, either... I'm just describing the situation.

But in keeping with "act pragmatically" officers can live in their "own pretend society or [...] can deal with the one [they're] actually in right now", which includes folks who don't particularly like them solely based on the authority they represent.
On the off chance...

Perhaps you're like me a decade ago and you don't even realise when you're insulting someone (I was like that). If so, I urge you to realise that just because you don't mean to be insulting doesn't mean you aren't.

The last line of your comment was obviously insulting and your comment has been downvoted by others as a result. That's an evident observation. Take it on board instead of disputing it, and if you really did not mean any insult, then think about how you could have phrased that line (and perhaps the rest of your comment) in a way that would not come across as insulting.

Learning to not involuntarily insult people is pretty useful.
Show HN: A customizable node.js site generator
Random words from books? What a herecy! Clearly they come from the Lord Inglip.

http://churchofinglip.com/
It's actually quite an elegant solution to getting people o configure their servers correctly. Instead of their servers being a hazard to the wider internet, they become a hazard to each other.
Ask HN: What to do when facing a bootstrapping issue while integration testing?
The abstract question I had:

What to do when faced with this situation: I need to test a piece of software for logical correctness. But the computation is so complex that in order to generate the test cases and expected results, I need the very program I am building.

Real Life situation: I wrote an AI program for a class that plays the 9 men morris game. It implemented both MINIMAX algorithm and ALPHA-BETA pruning in order to find the best move given a current board position. How do I test if my implementation is correct? How do I generate the test cases because, it is very tedious (maybe not, but if it is) to work out game tree algorithms by hand?

PS: I am a beginner programmer and a CS student learning from my mistakes. One of my past failed project taught me the importance of unit testing. I am just trying to figure out what my current project is trying to teach me. So I apologize in advance if this is a totally newbie question.
I think you've confused amoral with immoral.
Speaking as a member of APS... what do you expect from an APS magazine :)? What on earth is a "mathematician"? We have to call Edward Thorp an "American" because we don't know about his "theories" (c.f. the article)! (And how are "theories" different from "theorems"?)

EDIT: You beat me to the comment.
The difference here is that you're objectively more likely to find it by seeking, rather than passively waiting for it to happen to you.
Great, I am glad to hear that you guys have turned a profit. I am over in the UK (in Germany with my wife for Easter) right now. I really enjoyed the Erlang user group while I was in Wellington. :)
> Proving that EMH is false requires revelation of a profitable method or at least a statistically significant edge, which then makes it vulnerable to getting exploited away.

Yes, true, and such an outcome ironically supports the EMH.

> It's actually more useful if the public believes in EMH and in traders' best interest to keep their edges secret.

Actually, it is much, much more advantageous for traders to pretend that there is a surefire winning strategy that only they know about. The problem with that plan is the fact that there is no such strategy.

How do I know this? If there really was a surefire winning strategy, a trader who controlled it could (and would want to) do without any public involvement, and invest his own funds in private until he became absurdly rich.

That's the obvious way to play it -- why share the proceeds, and why risk exposing the method, by dealing with gullible, ungrateful clients? The answer is that those gullible, ungrateful clients are what makes the present system work, not some secret sauce that falsifies the EMH.
Enjoy!

standup = log --graph --decorate --oneline --author="YOURNAMEHERE" --since="yesterday"
Here's one happening worldwide next month: http://spaceappschallenge.org/
IF you own a laundromat and not just look after it I can see how it can be attractive.

Same with garbage. Especially if the competition isn't killing.
That was my immediate reaction. It's human nature to want a prize. If you think people should stop focusing on the prize, stop making it a competition.
>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to be interesting, engaging, and meaningful. Otherwise, why are we wasting our time on this planet?

A little early for April Fools'. Let's try this again.

>Work, being a core part of life, is meant to get things done. If your work is useful to other people, you will be able to enjoy life on this planet for a long time.
The analogy doesn't quite hold.

I believe the bulk of what people call "Agile" these days is terrible. You could say that most of that isn't the true Agile. But at some point I think that isn't a battle worth fighting. Personally, I just say that Agile started out as X and has become Y.

I would rather they didn't throw the baby out with their bathwater, but in the stories I have heard, the vitriol is entirely valid. I don't think it should be all directed at "Agile", in that managers deserve a lot, as do the hierarchical power structures in which the managers work. But the Agile people also made choices that led to this outcome, so I think it's fair that there's some spleen-venting directly at the Agile movement.
Being that many religions frown on birth control, being gay, and instead focus on having lots of babies... I don't think that would have the population control effect you are looking for.
I've had ones in this form a couple of time, where the image is clearly from a photo of someone's house number.
Not sure if they are checking house number positions from google street view with it to.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2461478/Images/captcha.jpg
I bought a first act acoustic for my daughter to learn on. It was untune-able.

I've been learning the uke for a year now, and after a few months, I've been irritated by my uke on some chords. Talked about it with my uke teacher, she pointed out that the string (the E string) isn't quite right (if it's in tune on the open string, then the G on that string is sharp). These things matter more than you might think.
Turn the other cheek is because God is perfectly just.

God says...

C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

of productive labour which it employs,
it adds a much greater value to the annual produce of the land
and labour of the country, to the real wealth and revenue of its
inhabitants. Of all the ways in which a capital can be employed, it is
by far the most advantageous to society.

The capitals employed in the agriculture and in the retail trade of any
society, must always reside within that society. Their employment is
confined almost to a precise spot, to the farm, and to the shop of the
retailer.
"the idea is quite distinct from what we've all been doing for several thousand years..."

Lonely hearts adverts are hardly new, though.
I find the "negotiate with collectors, they'll take anything" advice all over the internet, but in reality I've never been able to negotiate with collection agencies. They will do payment plans of a couple of months, but they will never accept less than the full principal, which is ridiculous. I always offer, they say no, call ends. Or I pay the full balance.

Dealing with commercial lenders and banks is different. But consumer debt is another animal.
If they don't stop torturing these poor animals, we're going to hunt them down and lock them in cages!

That's the problem with reality, might really does make right.
Asm.js only allows numeric operations on emulated heap buffer. You can do much better with OpenCL on CPU device.

Asm.js intended to be used as a backend for compilers.
One of OpenCL use cases is the same.

Asm.js code pretends to be a JavaScript code, OpenCL does not, but there is WebCL - a JavaScript binding standard for OpenCL.
Your "Concierge" layout looks like the feature by the same name in Songza:

http://songza.com/

And playback/playlist at bottom of site looks like Grooveshark's.

Nice content though.

PS: A user of both Songza/Grooveshark apps but not affiliated either company.
http://www.gazziliworld.com have some great educational games
They're easier and cheaper for startups.

That is distinctly better than good for them.

I've seen a lot of evidence that they aren't.
The toughest bug I encountered took a month to find. The program (a Unix daemon) was single process, with no threads. The program would crash (seg fault) after a few hours (some system) or a few days (other systems). There did not seem to be any rhyme or reason for the crash. And running it under a debugger didn't help, as it kept crashing at different points.

I finally found the issue, but only after close study of the code. I realized that one signal handlers was different than all the others, and that signal handler was calling some non-thread safe code. But because I wasn't using threads, the thought of a critical section of code being interrupted never occurred to me.

Now I spend my work time finding bugs in a distributed system. Fun times. (latest possible bug---one component stoped logging but only after what I would call "ludicrous load" (say, 1000+ load average)---it was still running, but apparently got wedged on a mutex)