skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Your statistic is shockingly meaningless. 2009 was the bottom of a recession and a stock market crash.

The same basic trend (a small fraction at the top go up, the rest goes down) was basically true during the "expansion" from the end of the 2001 recession to the beginning of the 2009 recession (in that period, IIRC, by quintiles the bottom four all so declines in real income, and the top quintile was flat; the top 5% had a modest increase, and the top 1% had a significant increase.)

This is why the 2001-2009 period between recessions seemed, in many ways, like a continuation of a long recession. Because for most people, it essentially was.
That is really cool - but who the hell found this, and how?
My guess is that the "limiting factor" is finding someone associated with the engineering program at that university. They could probably find a local racer that met the above qualifications without too much trouble.
If I could hack my brain I'd program it to not fret so much about that time I interrupted someone 2 years ago and worry if they're mad at me about it.
Unfortunately, I can't find any beer I've ever heard of.

I'm not very exotic.
I had to skim the article to ensure this wasn't a cheap shot at Perl!
Hah! That's pretty brilliant. Nicely done, Vimeo. OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?
Building sandcastles of code
Office 365 is free at the lowest level. For $2.50/student/month and $4.50/employee/month you get an SLA and the full Office suite for everybody.

It's a real bargain compared to hosting and managing your own email solution, plus students get Office licenses while they're enrolled.

Pricing details at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/academic/compare-office-36...
Not even close. The number of fatal accidents per year is ~600.

To get your 90+ number you're including suicides, which outnumber other illegal uses of guns; seeing that internationally suicide rates have no correlation whatsoever with gun ownership rates, and many developed countries have way higher suicide rates than ours, one would hope you could see gun mediated suicides don't belong in the same category.

Ah, while we're doing math, I get 6200 defense uses of guns every day.
If pirate bay was really interested in justice they would take up this cause.
http://www.youtube.com/robots.txt

# robots.txt file for YouTube

# Created in the distant future (the year 2000) after

# the robotic uprising of the mid 90's which wiped out all humans.
This is a really well done but depressing visualization of the frequency and scope of Wikipedia vandalism.
> your facts support the point that most immigrants to not start companies.

Neither do must "natives". That wasn't my point. The point was that immigrants tend to be a bit more entrepreneurial, and start more companies. Many of those companies are not 'startups' like we discuss here, but still, some of them grown and provide employment.
Are you aware of the Rosetta project (http://rosettaproject.org/about/)?

They claim their Rosetta Disk will "easily last and be legible for thousands of years". If humanity was sent back into hunter-gatherer mode for a few decades, the Rosetta Disk would be invaluable in unlocking access to other material this new civilisation would come across (assuming they share at least a passing familiarity with one of the 1000 human languages the Rosetta Disk encodes information in). Thats the closest I've seen to what you talk about.
I would order lots of beer in a heartbeat if there was a way to buy from your site!
The phrase "profit-mongering" also shows that you demonize wealth unless you agree with the recipient's intentions.

Markets should be designed to reward people who produce and serve others well. When a market rewards someone or a group of people for producing and serving well, it should not be demonized. If what they are producing or serving is counter to the good of society then society must adapt laws and regulations to prevent those products and services from being distributed.

To pretend that a bee fence deserves more reward from the market than a soft drink formula simply because it makes you feel better inside is not a sustainable economic model.
> Many people who live payday to payday will be the types of people who if they had there pay doubled would adjust into the same payday to payday model.

Yes, the less surplus income people have, the greater is their marginal propensity to spend.

> Certainly with the lack of incentives for savers

The US tax system has such extreme incentives for saving and investment as opposed to spending that any statement that starts this way is worth nothing but a laugh.
Friday afternoon fun: randomizing my app icon
There's a lot more to it than that sentence makes it seem.

Even if they didn't go with Google Apps, they'd switch off their legacy Exchange eventually, which could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. You can't just download and install the newer version, the way you'd upgrade from OS X 10.6 to OX X 10.7. You have to go through a migration process. And you want it to go seamlessly, including a temporary coexistence mode, so you really should hire specialized consultants. For example, here's reference material on migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638130(v=exchg....

MS Exchange is dated software, coming out with new versions regularly: 2003, 2007, 2010, 2013 (not yet production ready), and typically organizations keep whatever version they initially bought (say, 2003) rather than go through the pain of upgrading. So even if you were to migrate from Exchange 2003 to 2010 it could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for consulting services in the process. And you're doing all that for software that was released in 2010, probably built in 2008-2010, so it's literally 5 years old software you're installing in 2013, that's only going to start getting more out of date. That's one of the advantages of Google Apps and SaaS: once you go with Google Apps, you'll never have to upgrade, and you'll always have the most up-to-date version.
> But the claim is disingenuous when used as an argument against DRM. Deprived of the ability to use browser plugins, protected content distributors are not, in general, switching to unprotected media. Instead, they're switching away from the Web entirely. Want to send DRM-protected video to an iPhone? "There's an app for that." Native applications on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Windows 8, can all implement DRM, with some platforms, such as Android and Windows 8, even offering various APIs and features to assist this.

> In other words, the alternative to using DRM in browser plugins on the Web is not "abandoning DRM;" it's "abandoning the Web."

This shows a lack of understanding of what makes the web great. There's really no difference between a native app and a EME backed DRM layer. The web isn't about the browser window that it resides it; it's about content rendering the same on every platform. A page using EME is not going to render the same on every platform.

This is the status quo, with development costs being shifted from media companies (who no longer have to write separate apps for every platform they care about) to the platform owners who have to implement an approved DRM scheme or get their own scheme approved.
I suspect you need a lot more than that. You need a police force to enforce it, for example, courts to try and prisons to put away offenders. Then you need communications so people know what the penalties are, and somewhere they are compiled, and a system for changing them and keeping them current.

And then you'll need a financial system to pay for it, which means you will need some sort of currency combined with laws to regulate counterfeiting and some sort of contract law to let people make deals. Oh, and it might be an idea to have a boundary so people know where the law is valid, as well as a language in which the law is written, which means it's a good idea to educate people in that language.

Then what happens if someone doesn't initiate force against another, but just abandons them - eg a mother abandoning her child. Has she committed a crime? What about international fraud? Better have inter-country arrangements in place. But then you might need diplomats, and maybe an armed force just in case.

I could go on. My dream if ever a libertarian paradise comes to fruition is to buy up a one mile strip of land fully enclosing a village and refuse everyone the right to cross it - food delivery, immigrants, emigrants - everyone, trapping the people inside and letting them starve. After all, I can do whatever I like with my property, and the only law we need to implement is property rights, correct?
Scientists Invent Oxygen Particle That Allows You To Live Without Breathing
What makes you recommend RavenDB for C#? Just the .NET API? Honestly curious.
Topcoat: CSS for clean and fast web apps (from Adobe)
According to Unicode ß gets converted to SS in uppercase. This is by definition and doesn't change (stability policies, as far as I recall). Even in German you'll never see ß capitalised as SZ (except when I do it, but I'm a very, very small minority – and now I'm more likely to use ẞ).
Something about how the real people that get rich during a gold rush are the ones selling the shovels.
I'm hoping it's Freddie Mercury.
A fascinating mix of C# and Node-y programming. If nothing else, it'll hopefully be a good intro for C# developers to a different way of working.
Considering you want people to invest in you, you're giving away remarkably little information about yourself.

We know that you can put together a minimum viable product and that you're motivated to quit your job and... that's it. Even the LinkedIn profile is private.
Errrm, I guess you don't know that at contact range blanks are lethal....
Well, see http://wrapbootstrap.com/preview/WB02634G3 for example, the top images show a laptop with the web app on screen. I've tried countless times to take a screenshot of my app, grab a suitable laptop image and use photoshop to combine them to look good. But it always looks bad.

Like I said before, it's probably just a lack of design skills on my part to get the image to look 'right'. Thanks again for the suggestion, I'll give Paparazzi a try.
>IT just set up their Outlook to pull their emails from Gmail's servers

I've noticed that using IMAP on multiple devices can cause Gmail to say that you're using too much resources. Tripped me when I first saw the limitations. I had not thought there were limits on Gmail. How did they handle issues where people might want to access Gmail from various devices? Google has some numbers and recommendations here[1] but I'm interested in how you handled situations like this in the real world.

[1] https://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=...
Quality control is essential.
I have an interest in linguistics. But on the internet, some of the linguistics arguments are ridiculous. There are websites that claim that English (and all world languages) are descendant from Turkish. It is rubbish. In all types of subjects you find people with these pet theories, and they can be very prolific, putting their opinion on wikipedia or wikia or wherever, on websites, in discussions, and there can even be a following.
In software, you can tell rubbish. It compiles or it does not. It has a lot of bug requests or it does not. This does not map to science. You can't run a scientific article through a compiler to tell if it is good or bad. You can't tell if a new physics theory is reputable or some science fiction. A theory may be 10 years old, and the professor who wrote it unable to respond to all the queries, "bug requests," but it is still valuable. And a prolific pseudo-science author may have little "bug requests" because no one reputable who knows something about the subject has any time to deal with his nonsense.
Without effective quality control, there will be no science.
The article had no real solution to the problem.
This reminds me of the novel "A Canticle for Leibowitz". The novel is broken up into 3 periods, each 600 years apart, following a nuclear war that nearly wiped out humanity.

The first section, "Fiat Homo", revolves around an abbey in the desert, during a very harsh time in history, several generations after the war. There is almost no technology as man has been thrust back into the dark ages. People are just struggling to survive. The few books and relics of the past are copied by the monks with little to no understanding of what they contain with the hope that one day they may be useful in rebuilding society.

The second section, "Fiat Lux", revolves around the same abbey but now the world is in a period of a second renaissance. Great thinkers akin to Galileo and Copernicus emerge and start rebuilding what we knew of science. One man travels to the abbey who is considered to be one of the great thinkers of the age. When he finds remnants of a physics book on optics in the abbey he is dismayed because he had wasted years of his life re-discovering the principals within the book himself.

The last section of the book, "Fiat Voluntas Tua", takes place when man now has nuclear weapons again and technology has advanced to beyond the point of the first near apocalypse event.
I'm no expert on orbital mechanics but aren't the Lagrange points unstable critical points? Or is that only certain Lagrange points that are unstable?
I'm idling in freenode ##math always, as long as you observe the etiquette there are extremely smart people who are willing to help.
Actually, it could be done with crowdfunding.

Shameless plug: https://bountyoss.com/
We (https://www.authorea.com) are trying to be a small part of the solution. The question becomes "How do you incentivize researchers to publish in open science/open data journals?"

Giving the possibility of a modern article (only works in chrome for the moment but check out https://www.authorea.com/users/1/articles/1345/_show_article for an example) is one way. Making collaboration easier is another.

Until the incentives are in place researchers will continue to try and boost their careers by publishing in the most highly regarded journals, open or not.

EDIT: fixed link
Is that context anything more than being aware that there are other problems?
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Espaço SP: a local news HN clone about the city of São Paulo, Brazil
What is your customer paying you to provide? I've had an issue with "time-based" cost for a long time. I've done freelance work since 2001, and I use time to estimate my projects (very roughly) and even to invoice it (based on what I had estimated for them). Many clients are comfortable with that. On larger projects, I even paid other developers and had them submit their time to get paid. But I have never tracked my own time or outlined it for a client. In fact, with those other developers, I just wanted to know "how much" time they spent so I could pay them. The applications we worked on had the features implemented as requested. The client was happy with what was delivered to them.

While I did not track my time, I often found that I spent less time than I estimated. I say that because my freelance was on some evenings and weekends, and it simply didn't add up to a great amount of time. Once, I had a client over time, that often paid late, and we stopped working together when he had an outstanding bill. Much later, he contacted me with an urgent request. I got up front payment for twice what I estimated. Then I dug into the project and completed it in a tiny fraction of the time it took me to do it.

If you contractually agree to give clients "dedicated time being truly productive towards creating the requested end result", then I suppose you really need to be meticulous about tracking your time and providing records of how that time was used to move the project forward. I'd really rather not get in the habit of selling my time at all. I'm selling my ability to reach your objective, to build what you want to use. We'll define to the best of our ability what I'll be providing to you, we'll agree on the price, and then we'll measure our success on my delivery to you and your payment to me. What happens in between is of my concern, and it is in my best interest to spend my time effectively and perform efficiently.
> OK, who else has awesome source-code easter eggs?

https://soundcloud.com
Maybe the requirements of the DoD are different than those of a city administration?
When the City of Munich switched from MS to Linux/OpenOffice, they had to port 21,000 macros [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux
Teasing only works for prostitutes and strippers. The reason it converts better for you is because your other pages were worse. I do landing pages for startups, and yours can't be working that well. I have no problem with your product, or you, but the landing page is seriously holding you back. Anyhow, good luck. No harm intended.
If most people lost wages, saying they captured 121% of gains doesn't work - you can take someone else's gain if they didn't have one.

I get the point, but the phrasing is messy.
Show HN: Visualizing real-time tweets and Wikipedia updates
I'd say "Sure thing, you send me a video of your 8 hour work day and I'll send you one of mine."
Spending real resources (electricity/CO2) to produce money, then destroying the money, reducing the eventual money supply of this currency permanently, doesn't seem like the best way to handle any worries of journalistic integrity. They could've donated it just as easily.
>Imperative code is much more intuitive in the small.

In a single threaded, deterministic environment yes. But when you're talking multithreaded, I'd disagree.

if (user != null)
user.company = getCompanyByName("google")

being a NPE waiting to happen (in a multithreaded environment) is certainly non-intuitive.
I second the comment about not having heard of any of these beers. Where's the Budweiser?

Also, the site looks awful on my iPad. I didn't even stick around long enough to figure out the point of the site because the elements overlaying each other was really annoying.
Pretty awesome watching the technological innovation around Bitcoin. I personally don't have any, but just from following the progress and learning, I am starting to dabble with technologies (FPGAs, for example) in my research that I completely did not anticipate getting familiar with. Great hardware opportunities today for those traditionally limited to software (like me!).
"The information that was accessed includes usernames, passwords, physical addresses, email, hashed passwords..." They mention passwords AND hashed passwords, I wonder if this means they had some passwords saved in the clear.
Also I forgot: Google Apps for Business costs money and is ad-free, just like hosted Exchange. They eliminated the ad-supported Google Apps a few months ago.
The loss of NTRS does seem unbelievably sad. Are there any efforts underway to get the 85% put back online through political or NASA-internal means? And is anyone trying to reconstruct the data from Internet caches? I think that at one point, a lot of the text was in Google caches -- idk if it's been evicted yet
You might be able to use indexing to show potential bias. If you have access to the data, how often do the major news networks use the word "Obama" versus "President" over the course of the day? Say... Fox News, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC.
You obviously know nothing about SEO. Having a Giant face in a comment of your page increases clicks, on average, by 147%. Give or take.
It's really strange how Oatmeal Stouts apparently have absolutely nothing in common with other beers, even other types of Stouts. I suspect there's something wrong with the underlying data...
In Washington, DC this is often the first question that comes up between people. Some people find it off-putting (often times it's people new to the area), but it's pretty customary and I don't think most people find it strange here.
Google Analytics can help you with that.
Databases tend to fall closer to the programming language side of the spectrum, in my experience. If Github shut down, it would be a hassle but not a fatal one. Same goes for most of AWS (DynamoDB and S3 have compatible open-source alternatives if need be).

But if your esoteric programming language or DB (I place datomic in that category because it's very different than anything else out there) becomes unavailable or the price is raised too high you have no choice but to fundamentally rewrite your software. That could be the end of your business.

This is absolutely not to say they should open source it--that's entirely their decision. This is just to explain why many (myself included) feel uncomfortable relying on closed source DBs.
Everybody deals with such things. Some just choose to not pay much attention to it. (:
To view Wikipedia updates and Tweets, try the following:

1) Click Twitter followed by Start Collection.
2) Click Add Stream followed by the Wikipedia tab. Enable Page Locations and select a color under the Visualizations tab. Finally, start the stream by clicking Start Collection.
3) Perform step 2 with Wikipedia User Locations and a new color.

Enjoy!
I suggest reading the comments here:

http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi....

Many are very well spoken, for example: http://www.w3.org/QA/2013/05/perspectives_on_encrypted_medi....
I am quite happy actually and somewhat busy with other work, so I’ll pass on the books, nevertheless thank you.

But I guess it is valid to ‘over-diagnose’ here, i.e. err on the side of caution, so it might even make sense to put in things that make sure anyone not absolutely fitting the standard ‘happy’ bill might be compelled to seek professional attention.
Yeah, and that's exactly why "calorie excess" is nowhere near the conversation ender it's so often used as. At best it's a conversation starter to use on those dummies to which it is not self-evident. The thorny part of overconsumption is WHY one is compelled to do so, not simply that one does.
"Even if W3C decided to drop EME, there are enough important
companies working on the spec—including Netflix, Google, and
Microsoft—that a common platform will be built. The only
difference is whether it happens under the W3C umbrella, or
merely as a de facto standard assembled by all the interested
parties."

Someone tell this author that when you see a horrific 10 car pileup, you're not supposed to say: "Well at least it happened on OUR land".
Paul Graham Featured In Rap Song Called Hacker News
I feel you, nested labels is the easy answer to this. However, the better answer is teaching people about archiving and search.

People used to folder their emails because searching was terrible. Gmail's search is pretty good, so the best workflow in my opinion is to archive email once you're done with it, and search if you need something specific. I do use labels too, especially auto-labels, but I've found search to be more useful.

Still, some people are reluctant to change, and just want to do things the way they've always done it. So that's why nested labels exist.
Yeah much prefer my name rather than my online handle.
Reddit AMA with founders of Startup Institute
Story of Pre-pubescent Hacking
Bubble Sort Dance
Yes, bubble sort dance.