skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dalio has also written papers on this and related topics [0]. Originally, there were three separate papers, but it looks like they've been combined in to a new draft. The three main sections:

* How the Economic Machine Works

* Debt Cycles: Leveragings & Deleveragings

* Productivity: Why Countries Succeed & Fail Over the Long Term

[0] http://www.bwater.com/home/research--press/how-the-economic-...
ASK HN: What web application do you need?
Hey,

I am an experienced web developer with some free time. I'm interested in some ideas for a web application, something you need that you can't find or is expensive.
I'm willing to work for free following your specifications, in the end you'll get free access forever to the application. I was thinking about some application that will bring me passive income after is done.

Any ideas? :) Share your needs here, or drop me an email to hiulianro [@] gmail com
There is really only one reason I hate infographics. I can't do them. If I had a fraction of the skill displayed at xkcd or the like, I would love them. :)
I don't think you have a clue what science is and I doubt I can thoroughly correct you in this short space but I'll give it a shot.

Math is a language - it has no inherent analogies to reality. It can be used to describe a natural phenomenon, but the validity of this description must be tested through experimentation. If it is not disproven, a mathematical (or other type) model can be a useful tool in simulating the observable world.
The more tags post has, the less people will see it because users have an option to hide posts with certain tags. And of course moderators are there to adjust the tags if necessary.
Lucas Film - filmmaking scenes get rendered out in real time
Sounds like you two should meet up for a coffee sometime.
Wow, you remembered three! Well done! However, over 2000 terrorist attacks occurred in Europe in the last decade, so you'll need to remember more than three to attempt to show that most of them were muslim in origin/motivation. Here's a hint: You won't manage to find many more than ten.
The author of that thoughtful blog post is, of course, one of the editors at Science-Based Medicine.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/editorial-staff/david-h-...

On his personal blog he uses the screen name "Orac," but he is the same person.
Nurse, he's escaped again!

What a load of old carp. Science based medicine has saved and prolonged so very many lives. Yup, some treatments have side effects. Sometimes these are fatal. However the balance is massively skewed in favour of SBM and getting more so all the time.
I'm inclined to believe their findings, in the same way that I'd agree putting a picture of Miley Cyrus as the lead art for a story about unemployment rates would make you notice and remember that one story more than other unemployment rate stories.

Quick question on the paper's methodology...is 20 a big enough sample size?
Is Apple getting gunshy about iterative releases? Back in Steve's day this would have been tacked on to at least the launch of something like the new Mac Pro.
Data looks better naked
Hewlett Packard brings Ubuntu Linux to China
I've got a late 2011 (non-retina) MBP, so old style magsafe connector suits me. There's been a lot of hints at a 4k screen to match the new Mac Pro.

Not looking for any features in particular, I've just got a bad habbit of buying something just before it gets updated :s
Cosplay to the masses in 15 years
I think that this animated GIF is actually very bad advice.

1) They remove axis labels, forcing the reader to infer the axis from context.

2) They remove the horizontal lines, making it harder to compare different values visually.

3) They remove tickmarks, so the reader no longer knows if the origin is at zero or not.

4) They add labels with 3 significant digits, which gives the reader a false sense of precision.

Overall they arrive at a graphic that may be nicer to look at, but is functionally much worse than the original.
And yet Apple is the platform making gains (with OSX), especially in people's homes - and has been for the better part of a decade. I don't know when you last walked through a University, but Macbooks make up the majority of laptops students are using. What people 'want' isn't a Windows PC (as their sales are showing - especially in higher price points).

You're right about the consoles (except the kinect, I don't know a single person who owns it) however, but the console crowd are a fickle bunch, and the way things are shaping up, the PS4 could be the winner this time round...
Hopefully as batteries improve we can push into the new paradigms of compact wearable computing (watches, raspberry pi rings?) and augmented reality.

The premise that we're all done innovating is completely flawed, and there are no doubt entire companies yet to exist that will rule the market at points in the future.
Interpolated Physics Rendering in JS
I'm always a little bit warry of "developper marketing" like blog and conferences, because when you do that you're not developping, and this shows skills that are quite different than the ones required for software development. Marketing is all about mass media one way communication (broadcast), development is at most two way personal communication.
AIDS: News from the front
the we can write open sourced features to feed data in from outside servers, to limit flying to within a few miles of the schools, to get kids to map their school playing fields in more detail and build more exact maps that can then be uploaded

seriously the pi is amazing. forget the arduino. this is where it's at.

(of course only those schools in the uk who still have playing fields can do this ;-)
I own and love my 27inch iMac. It exemplifies the quote from Apple's senior vice president:

“iMac continues to be the example that proves how beautiful, fast and fun a desktop computer can be,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "

But as someone that doesn't like to mess with hardware too often, I am very disappointed at how difficult it is to change a simple hard drive on this machine, and that they don't figure out how to make it easier. My computer is beautiful, but I have to suction off the glass display to change the hard drive.

The other day I upgraded my PS3 to an ssd with almost zero knowledge of what I was doing. There was a tab, a screw, and a lever. Unplug tab, unscrew screw, pull lever, replace hard drive. Took < 5 minutes.

I understand aesthetic beautiful designs, but something about the way inside my iMac makes me feel like its a big design flaw. I knew what I was getting into when I bought this computer, but I was hoping in the future, updates to the iMac would make it much easier.

I guess in the end, the beauty of the design is in the eye of the beholder. Tough to make everyone happy...
>He points to wearables such as Google Glass as one obvious category. But then he rightly says that such devices already seem a little boring — “remarkably like tiny iPhones bolted to our heads and fastened to our wrists.”

So Apple's iPhone compared to Blackberry's offerings was a paradigm shift that killed all potential innovation, but Google Glass compared to the iPhone is just an iPhone strapped to your face.

Not the most compelling analysis.

>This could be the end of any radical innovation in mobile, period. Even Apple has run its course: Where else can it go?

Almost egotistical how the author rests the lack of future innovation squarely upon his lack of imagination.

>Imagine a phone that could go for a month of heavy use on one charge, which, alongside other improvements, could give us constant location awareness we could actually depend on.

Maybe the author missed the announcement about the M7 chip, but that is exactly the type of innovation that allows for dependable location awareness. And longer battery life is an innovation that is currently in the works and will get there. Just because it hasn't happened soon enough doesn't mean nobody has thought of it and reached for it. That is being innovated. Now.

Also, Blackberry is responsible for Blackberry's failures. There were many strategies available to it when the shift began. It chose wrong and executed what it did choose poorly. Contrast that with Samsung, often derided for completely apeing and copying Apple and using Google's aped OS to do so. Quibble with that narrative all you want, but even adopting the most unflattering version of it, it proved to be a smart business decision, which, at the end of the day, is almost all that matters as they are extremely profitable and BB just gutted its workforce and may never make a phone again.

BB didn't fail because there were no innovative paths available to it as the author suggests. Not only is that premise wrong, but it assumes they had to innovate to succeed in the first place, which is also wrong. When it comes to execution and innovation, they failed on both counts.
Thanks! I was just as interested as you in the article, and figured a summary of the paper would help many who couldn't get past the abstract. Glad you enjoyed it.
MAP: Here Are The Countries That Work Hard And The Ones Where They like To Relax
Sorry, my bookmark for the actual data is now a 404 :( It was from Interpol data, 2009 or 2010 I believe. Interestingly while searching for that data I stumbled across some for the USA: In the 1980 - 2005 period, 6% of terrorist attacks on American soil were carried out by Islamic extremists. 6%!
Why does everyone always bring up the one kid they saw on YouTube banging his head on a wall as an example of autism?
That's exactly what the article says no?
Ask HN: Is library.nu reborn somewhere?
Library.nu went offline at the end of 2011 with gen.lib.rus.ec and libgen.org, libgen.info holding most of those available titles.
But what is curious is that a lot of new titles are starting to appear on this mirrors. Does this means that there is a library.nu twig that sprang somewhere?
I expect it'll focus on a single product line, possibly with some updates on how the company's faring, particularly the iPhone 5s & 5c's launches.

I'd guess it'll be the iPad's turn in the spotlight, though it's possible Cupertino's decided it's time to fully launch the new Mac Pro.

(And with a zero probability: the return of the 17" MBP, much as I'd love to see that size rejoin the rest of the family - ideally with a 3840x2400 display, but the last version's 1920x1200 would be fine too)
This is a pretty useless fluff article. I am none-the-wiser as to how this will work to protect my farm of Linux VM's. To add insult to injury the Lynuxworks website has run out of steam.
Mac Pros are due soon -- "Fall 2013." I wouldn't be surprised to see updated displays to coincide with that launch.
Companies (including BlackBerry) must innovate in different ways. To "think different" as Steve Jobs used to say. Moral and ethical innovations are long overdue. Innovations in customer service, innovations in networking.

Technology isn't going to save us and the planet, thinking and acting differently may.
> "Hacker" is a great term because it's fairly specific

Funny thing. I think "maker" is far more specific term than "hacker". Maker == a person who makes stuff, hacker == a person who is somehow in touch with tech.
YCombinator Blog
Caffeine consumption slows down brain development
I would be interested to hear why they're "biased against using placebos because [they] consider it unethical". There is rigorous scientific support for the effectiveness of placebos in some situations, so by not supporting their uses they're effectively cutting patients off from a cheap, easy to produce treatment. Sure, lying isn't particularly ethical, but neither is denying a patient a valid treatment, so I wonder how they decided between the two.
... who were Hindus.

As an aside, they also carried out attacks against Tamil Muslims in areas they claimed as theirs (Tigers').
Because anyone that ever takes any form of medication doesn't live long enough to reproduce?

WFT are you on about?
The next medevac helicopter won't need a pilot
On Developer Hiring - The Elephant In The Room
Cordova Plugin Registry
That is actually a strength, not a weakness, of the librarian analogy. If there had been a WAF in place that alarmed when it saw Weev incrementing his way through the customers, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Meet the Datasexual
Let's Sue the Idiots
There is nothing new under the sun. Your grand kids will be writing similar screeds in whatever forum is popular with them about more or less the same subject, just as the hippie generation did in the 1960's.

Society vacillates between rejecting institutions and embracing them, for a basic reason: you really don't want to go too far in any direction.

On one hand, you obviously don't want to become slaves to the status quo. Injustice exists, and it must be fought. On one hand, there is intrinsic value in having issues be settled. At a point, a final disposition is better than the "right" disposition. It is difficult for society to function productively without broadly shared values, purposes, and coordinating institutions.

The idea of a "hyper-individualistic" "post-communitarian" world is absolutely at odds with the direction of social change to date. Our societies become ever more interdependent, a phenomenon that has accelerated greatly since the industrial revolution and the resulting trend towards specialization and division of labor. Which is really the more "hyper-individualistic" world? The world circa 1750 where everyone was a farmer and grew their own food and sewed their own clothes and generally did 95% of the activities necessary to sustain their lives, or the world circa 2013 where everyone does a hyper-specialized job and depends on the labor of thousands of other people doing hyper-specialized jobs to maintain their lifestyle? Shared values, shared purpose, and common institutions are far more important today than they were a couple of hundred years ago.
Porting existing .NET apps to iOS
IOS 7 doesn’t make your phone waterproof
GitHub has released a lot of open source code: https://github.com/GitHub
If you're not tied to Apple, with my Air I use a Dell U2713HM -- an excellent display of the same size and without the annoying glass screen. Also plugs into the Thunderbolt port.
At least bad visualizations can be funny:

http://wtfviz.net
Nice.

The speed is really impressive, at least for the queries I tried. There are still a lot of queries with no results, and you might want to think of something clever to put there in those cases to keep the user turned onto your brand. When there are results, they seem quite relevant and useful.

The "Show me how it works" tour is great too.

I think you just need to work on your value proposition on the landing page. Don't be afraid to sell something. Put together few paid packages as soon as possible. Don't worry if it's not perfect.
4 New Ways to Smuggle Messages Across the Internet
Nairobi attack: UK woman and Americans 'among militants'
Announcing the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator
it's one toggle switch in the settings.

If you know it needs to be done. If you still have the device.

According to our head of IT, he said if you didn't (as most people don't) it gets a whole lot worse.
So You Think You Have A Power Law—Isn't That Special?
I've heard a lot about Whatsapp and iMessage... Can someone explain why I would want to use either instead of text messaging? Is this basically just MSN/ICQ style messaging on your phone? Why would I need that when I can just use SMS?
Starting an Airline
Reintroducing the Firefox Developer Tools: the Web Console and the JS Debugger
This is certainly interesting research, but killing bacteria on agar is a long way from treating humans. I'm still waiting for bacteriophage vials to be available in my local CVS.
Semaphore is now integrated with Cloud 66
Why we hate Why we hate (And why you should)
I ordered an iMac three days ago, it has not been shipped. Is there any change that I will get an updated model?

(No, I do of course not demand an updated model for me, I am happy if I get what I ordered and paid.)
I paid income tax when I was 16. I should have been allowed to vote.
"Neither can CAM. But doctors do have some pretty good ideas why it happens: exposure to infections, number of organisms that get into the body, genetic factors, toxins, immune deficiency"

I would have preferred that they use the word poison instead of toxins. Not that it's factually wrong but a lot of woo treatments claim to flush the toxins out of the system.

Maybe I'm overly pedantic here, but a provider of dubious therapies can point to this very article and claim that "see, my mercury enema treatment flushes out the nasty toxins. Even scientists claim that this can be a problem".
Tech startups: the Stockholm guide
I'm honestly surprised we haven't more open-world games set in Manhattan - it's probably the most recognizable geography in the world. Of course, there would probably be licensing issues out the wazoo... I wouldn't be surprised if there was a copyright on the likeness of Time Square.
Five Ways to Bring Broadband to the Backwoods
How is Apple magically supposed to know that you've switched phones?
Thanks! We really appreciate the feedback. We're constantly working on growing the index and improving the search so expect that to improve over the coming months.
The high unemployment is fantastic? Or the response in the face of it is?
Ask HN: Validate my idea - mock phone interviews
Idea: Programmers book a time for me to call them up and hold a mock phone interview.

I'm using youcanbook.me to take bookings, and I will use skype or one of the cheap international providers to call people outside of the UK.

The interview will be 10-15 minutes. Just a taste of a programming interview, but enough that I can provide actual feedback, hopefully helpful.

Funding? I'm paying costs myself to see if the idea works. I'm going to give it a few weeks and then make a decision about what next.

http://cvmountain.com/2013/09/you-can-book-me-for-a-mock-phone-interview/
Concealed carry is prohibited, which is clearly what he's referring to.
There can be very long periods where number theory advances are no more useful than say string theory or literary theory. Then every once in a while you hit something big. Much of encryption rests on what was formerly ivory tower papers on prime numbers.

This isn't to increase or diminish the importance of the accomplishment. I actually don't know where this belongs in the annals of math.
Any jail time AT ALL is too much for non-violent crime. If a citizen is no threat to others, it is not necessary to take away his freedom (and along it, his job, and contact with his family). This is a monetary crime at best (usually, without profit for the pirate) and a monetary compensation is in order, nothing more. A hefty fine can hurt a lot and is a deterrent, but not taking away the ability to support oneself.
Hmmm, a matte screen might be nicer, but I like the idea of the Apple displays having a built in magsafe, USB and FireWire (I see that the Dell has USB, but I need the FW more)
I'm pretty sure I did this recently - it sent as an iMessage and after a minute or two when the message still hadn't been delivered to the destination phone it fell back on SMS (I'm assuming the iMessage registration times out after a while, though?)
Your examples of blurring childhood and adulthood are mostly answerable (however poorly) by saying "well, these things may be increasingly happening, but they Shouldn't Happen and we should work on fixing that".

Here's an example that can't be thus answered. Should a minor pay income taxes, if they have enough income? I think most people would say yes. But then tell me again why they can't vote?
Could there be an AppleTV update of some sort? An A7, and some sort of app store would be nice.
Normally you get a new Mac if you ask for it, it it has been updated in the last 15 days. Or a big discount on your existing purchase.
It has been common for step releases to just happen on a random Tuesday. If there were a new case design or radical change it would have been part of an event.

Here's one they did for laptops:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/04/13/apple_releases_new...

And one for iMacs:

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/27/apple_updates_imac...
Official Gmail Blog: More On Gmail’s Delivery Delays
It may or it may not be...see: http://www.uvm.edu/~bbeckage/Teaching/DataAnalysis/AssignedP...
Actually, there's no difference at all when one involves the other. (See drone strikes / collateral damage / Hellfire missiles / Yemen).

Also, killing people posing no immediate threat to the lives of others and with no due process is, almost by definition, an act of murder. Not war, murder.
Official Readdme T-Shirt
Getting pretty tired of all these posts that are telling me what I should hate. It's just infographics. They're not a substitute for hard core analytics and they're not supposed to be. It's a designers spin on providing summary level data that sits somewhere between the words of design and analysis. If you want a quickly digestible, publishable bit of content, use infographics. If you want to provide more meat to your message, don't use them.
Well, the guys who hacked it said you did need a higher resolution picture/duplicate of the print, which may not be that big of a deal, but it is an improvement.
I never understood why they would make a bulky machine hard to upgarde.

I have a 1.1 mac pro tower. So easy to open/add memory and hard drives. Even my polycarb (white) macbook was easy to update the hard drive.

Harddrives will fail... It shouldn't be hard to replace them.
Magical history tour: Steve Jobs' home
"Math is a language"

Beyond the fact that languages can be described in a mathematical way, yes.

And science is a philosophical concept. It also does not have any formal verification towards the validity of it.
It has certainly has had a practical success, but one could say that is even anecdotal.
I think their policy is typically to update to the latest model if the order hasn't shipped yet.

The same thing happened to be when I ordered a MacBook back in 2007, where a few days later they announced better specs and I got a notification saying they updated my order to reflect the changes.

It's one of the reasons my next laptop will probably still be Apple.
Do you mean MacBook Air? The Pros have been retina for a while :)
I had a stint of unemployment this last summer. After looking hard, I found a job at a factory. This factory wasn't the dirty and greasy factories of old. Instead, I worked on processing cell phones.

Phones came in, were stripped of sim/memory cards, sent to charging, then went to data wipe, then off to inspection (I was here), and then 2 layers of QA.

My job entailed in making sure there was no user data on the phones, nor were there memory/sim cards in the phones. We also had to classify damage as well. And I had to do 350 phones in a 10 hour shift. So I saw a _LOT_ of phones. These ranged from junky feature phones to the newest of new phones.

And you know what, I saw much more variation and 'cool' tech in the Androids than any other phone. There was that Sony Playstation phone. I saw a phone with 2 outside cameras to do 3d pictures.. And it had a 3d screen ala 3DS to boot. There was another android that was a square, perhaps 3 inches, and it folded out on a hinge and slid and created a rectangle 3x6. One model I will avoid is the Motorola Droids. They use a crap screen tech that leaves 'bullet holes' in the screen LCD, even with no other obvious damage. And I saw a LOT of these.

And then, I saw the Blackberries. They were annoying. The scroll wheel stunk. The touchscreens were the antithesis of sensitive.. not to mention the ones with the screen clicking on certain models. The browsers were absolute junk. Apps? You jest. You want to program it? Yeah right: have YOU tried using that devel suite? The media player was junk bolted on. Maybe they worked well when hooked up to a BES. Then again, maybe not.