skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> At no point does the author convincingly explain that American unemployment is a problem of geographical mismatch, instead of the far more likely case of skills mismatch.

If it were a case of either of those, it would be visible in the data. Which it isn't. American unemployment - and European unemployment, for that matter - is a result of the class warfare practiced by the rich against the poor in recent years. Paul Krugman suggests Republican policies are responsible for 2% extra unemployment, nationwide:

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/15/the-gop-tax/

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/10/17/what-a-drag-2/

High unemployment is a result of policies that have artificially suppressed demand for goods and services by taking money out of the hands of people who will actually spend it, resulting in an overall excess supply of labor and low demand for labor and therefore, low wages.
For US readers : the Spectator is a well regarded but self consciously right wing magazine, most famously edited by the current London Mayor Boris Johnson.

The article is a rehash of the arguments proposed by (cited) Bjorn Lomborg - who rose to fame / notoriety with "The environmental Skeptic" (not sure if have title right there).

He is a economist who does make sensible arguments about needing to take into account the costs and benefits of climate change - which I do agree with. I only am suspicious of who said the reasonable and sensible comment - it's like the difference between Lech Walensa saying the workers should organise and Lenin saying it.

I am however, heartened by the fact that right wing magazines in the UK accept climate warming, accept it as human caused, merely argue if we need to do something. Which apparently puts us a long way ahead of the Republicans.
It's a bubble if the valuations are based on nothing. If you look at Tesla, you have the world's best (!) entrepreneur as the CEO behind a company who wants to create electric charging stations fueled by solar cells on his hyperloops all across the country.

Think again.
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> There's nothing that PHP is very good at that Python, Ruby, Perl or C# can't do nearly as well.

That is a little bit of an overstatement. Php is good at a lot of things that others aren't. Most of all ease of use and deployment. It MAY also be faster than other languages in certain circumstances. Example [1]. All in all, choose what you are comfortable with and what you feel is right for the job.

[1] http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?te...
To an alarming degree, science is not self-correcting
Good point ... and which is why the BBC exists, and why Italian politics (all big media owned by Berlusconi) is generally worse than other Western democracies in transparency. Germany, France, Scandinavian countries all have state broadcasters which at least attempt some kind of balance, even if with a hegemonic (incumbent) slant. And the private sector still has a health left wing media, which is more cultural.
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* If you're a startup that mostly employs 20-something males.

It's nothing to do with being a startup and everything to do with demographics.

Additionally, for really small startups that don't have a giant pile of capital or enough people for a group plan, the healthcare exchanges make insurance "possible" instead of "better hope you're married and the spouse can do family plan".
I think it is very possibly a result of culture in America and to a lesser extent, Europe, showing people working in technology as unglamorous, lonely nerds with questionable personal hygiene.

Witness the many TV shows making fun of STEM-concentration people, The Big Bang Theory, The IT Crowd, etc. In any film, the hacker will typically be shown as the over-eager, quirky, physically weak character (think Charlie Day as the kaiju scientist in Pacific Rim). Unless the film is something edgy like the Matrix, people always expect to see computer professionals as low-status individuals.

In my opinion, this results in women being afraid to enter these fields, because they are painted as having low social worth even if they have high economic worth. (BTW, if you live in Silicon Valley and are used to coffee-shop discussions about your favourite JS libraries, remember that it is a distorted reality field; if you are male and work in tech elsewhere in the States, the most people will come up with is "Do you work in IT? Oh, I see...")

On the contrary, in the former Soviet Union, scientists and technologist had a high social worth. Boom, 58% of engineers were women, as the article says.
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The A-10 section starts at about 15:50.

There's also a very interesting section on SAGE the US military super computer from the 50s.
+1 for the laugh.

Reminds me of this wannabe `hacker` I knew once who lived on an estate that had free wifi. He proudly told me how he managed to DOS the wifi router and make it lock up. I pointed out that he had in effect and litterly DOS'd himself of the internet and for that I was truely thankful such achievements got recognised in the Darwin awards.
I had another thought: maybe through judicious sizing of (front) chainrings and the freewheeling cog one could get something that could climb a hill? Will widespread adoption of this device encourage development of a front derailleur that can handle more than three rings?
I noticed my site (http://octopus.org) spiked in traffic today - can't be co-incidental. Octopus are fascinating and the more we learn about them, the more they fascinating they become.
You need to combine those two thoughts in your last paragraph. Women being driven out of areas of interest starts very young:

https://www.usenix.org/blog/my-daughters-high-school-program...

And it comes from all over:

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/12/4693710/the-end-of-kindnes...
And how much extra would that cost?
Holy crap is the Forbes site busy (in terms of "stuff", not traffic)...
In Go, you can put a comment above the package clause in any of a package's source files (including an otherwise empty one) and the tools will pick it up. e.g.:

http://golang.org/src/pkg/fmt/doc.go -> http://golang.org/pkg/fmt/
Company MakeWorldABetterPlace.com creates new thing and makes us all feel better in a directly measurable way.

They decide to create an even better new thing that has heavy capital requirements so they issue stock.

Even better new thing is not as great as we all thought, so stock goes out of favor as market participants channel capital to new and more promising tech companies.

Years down the road, MakeWorldABetterPlace.com, trading on old securities decides to enter the mobile market and creates revolutionary device. Market participants catch on and start channeling capital out from less promising securities and into the old and existing claims on assets of MakeWorldABetterPlace.com. Thousands of businesses and jobs are created by new privately held companies that create new things using MakeWorldABetterPlace.com's mobile operating platform.

So much talent focuses on the buying and selling of securities because it is the most social way to vote directly - by allocating capital. And the product of that capital flow is what is observed as the creation of new products that make the world better in a directly measurable way.

If you don't think liquidity is important, then with it goes the ability for countless tech startups to exit (through their acquisition by large corporations in exchange for claims on existing assets) and use the resulting capital to create subsequent startups, that perpetuate the cycle of creativity.
"And how is it of enormous benefit to society, when it is concentrated in fewer hands". So by your logic, Tesla or SpaceX are not of benefit to society because it's concentraded in very few ( 2 ) hands of Elon Musk ?

Secondly, anything that is profitable and legal is of benefit to society, unless it generates obviously negative externalities ( costs for others ) such as pollution

the reason is, our society is mainly built on the idea that everyone can pursue whatever they want and not what some central authority deems to be "useful"
I frankly flagged this. It's opinion and "technical trading" (read: nonsense) on Forbes blogspam section.
If this project is like the other Kickstarter projects I've backed, it will meet its funding goal then be delayed by months and months, if not years, with letters of apology sent every month or so. It's a shame because Kickstarter is one of the best things to ever happen to capitalism.
I'm just a young male and my views are obviously not perfect. But I've always thought that if Sheryl Sandberg was not rich, she would've had a completely different view of the world women live in.

In lean-in, she paints this rosy world in which ambitious women can achieve whatever they want to. Reality is, most people (men included) just don't have the financial freedom, support system, recognition etc. to take huge risks. Even when we take risks, statistically, we fail most of the time.

Most men and women never grew up in a family where both their parents are successful. Heck, many American kids grow up in broken families with parents divorced. Sheryl has had a lot of institutional support that she could take for granted.

Of course, this does not mean women should not have the freedom to do what they want. In fact, I really want to see more women focus on smarts and take leadership positions in the hard stuff (military, congress etc.).

But, just because things worked out for Sheryl, she's talking through a lens of privilege and success. Unfortunately, these lenses are not readily available.
I don't think it would be easy to write a global one for every site, but I think it would be cool to make a community-driven unsubscribe script collection.
I want to believe you, as I also love TESLA - but I also observe that on average "bottom line" analysis beats out your kind of analysis - e.g. when you compare market returns vs VC returns. The best VCs may out perform the best "bottom line" investor (I have no idea, but it seems possible), but unless you're sure you're world class, how can you be so confident in your analysis?
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I'm using SVN for source control.

And I'm a little confused on the first part, because .NET 4.5 is not supported in Visual Studio 2010.
This looks great! How did you get so many people using it already? Was it just Hacker News crowd?

I recently also built a HN Clone with Flask, this one for Open Data, Data Visualization, and other things along those lines.

http://www.datanews.co/

It was my first major Flask app and I mostly wanted to build it to learn. I definitely recommend this as a good learning application. Its complex enough you need to put in some thought but do-able at the same time.

Source for DataNews is here: https://github.com/joehand/DataNews
My favorite setup (for the ones that move regularly) is a pair of trestles and a wood table from the nearest Brico Depot. Not as sturdy as the OP, but enough for at least a year.

The total cost should go around 30USD + one hour to sand both the table and the trestles for a safe and good looking end result.
Ask PG: Policy on Betteridge's Law of Headlines?
pg,

Can we have a community discussion regarding what policies (if any) that we should have in place to handle posts which are exemplar of Betteridge's Law of Headlines? They are a consistent source of flame wars and rarely result in constructive valuable commentary.

Journalist's obviously are not going to let go of such a powerful copywriting tactic since it gets them page views. I take this is a sign that it is the responsibility of communities such as ours to provide a correcting force by banning titles that are questions and are not "Ask HN:" posts. This would help mitigate the incentive journalists have since they would know they are losing audiences every time they get the urge to publish with such flame-war inducing tactics.
No no no. I wish i could always use html ui in my applications. It's leagues ahead of layout/form/widget based ui solutions. Styling native elements is like bending metal bars with bare hands.
I believe you entirely miss the point of that decision. IT was nothing to do with the freedom of the press: it's still free whether corporations are "people" or not in law. What changed was the ability of non-press organisations to use money as a proxy for speech to buy up "freedom of speech" through expensive media campaigns. This is the problem of gross inequality that this decision made.
I have been using Apple machines since, I was 11, now 26. One year in high school, after I moved districts, I had to use Windows OS. I never used it too much as a teen or kid. A job after college required me to use a Windows XP desktop and it was un-fun.

Alas, I now have a Surface Pro. And it has become my sidekick, my go-to, it sleeps on the floor next to me. I still use my iMac, but its rare.

I have very few complaints for Windows 8 running on the Surface Pro. I think the OS was designed for machines just like the Pro. You can call them hybrids, for lack of a better term. Something you can use for both leisure and work.

Windows 8.1 is downloading right now on my Pro. And, not going to lie, I am still new to Windows and a little nervous. I hear so many stories of Windows "going bad" but that is on non-Microsoft made machines.

I guess what I am getting to, is Windows 8 was designed for machines with touch screens. It really excels in that format, but OEMs a year ago, were not selling hardware to support that.

I would pick up a Surface and give it shot.

>I use metro on a secondary monitor when hooked up to my Pro, without problems.

EDIT [long answer] When the iPad came out, I was happy and disappointed at the same time. I had dreamt of a tablet machine that could run Adobe CS Suite and Ableton, and more...But it didn't. That was okay, I still liked it, and iPad 3 was awesome. But still, I since a kid, dreamt of that "all in one machine." I at one point was saving up to buy an third party created macbook touch.

When the Surface Pro was announced, I was hooked. It was finally going to exist, a portable touch tablet with a pen that could run desktop programs. Not going to lie, its been great so far. If Apple makes a comparable tablet, I will buy that! Windows 8 felt like a compromise at first. Now, all the swipes and features are second hand, and work very well!
Depends on what you mean. It doesn't spread in the same way that const correctness spreads in C++, i.e. once you add const somewhere you are forced to add it to a bunch of other places as well.
Typically. For example, on reddit you can run this in console to downvote everything on a comment thread:

$.each($(".down.arrow"), function(index, vote){
$(vote).click();
});
Why did you downvote me when we simply have a different opinion? Is the expression of opinions no longer welcome on HN? I don't have the ability to downvote you? Does your ability to downvote me mean your opnion is more valid than mine?
Remebers me of the cow at the Restaurant at the Ende of the universe!
One of the grad students I know was told he was not allowed to renew his student visa unless he stopped working on computer security. He had to switch advisers and the school had to swear that he would not be allowed to continue his previous work.
I don't know what point I am making, maybe agreeing somewhat, but after I had finally trapped and killed a field mouse that was causing a lot of havoc in my home I discovered its nest. It had dragged back a number of things for comfort like fluffy small things from the dryer, but notably it had also dragged a golden necklace back there and left it just inside the entrance to its home. I felt a tinge then, like it had appreciated something shiny just because it was pretty and took it to its home. I struggled to think of any other purpose, but still that vermin had caused a lot of damage in my house.
But it only become widespread to the what was the technical average Joe in the 80's.
I am not ignoring the primary point. My point about golf-carts and better golfers maps back onto branching and better programmers.

To spell it out explicitly: I believe that modern version control systems, specifically ones that provide sophisticated branching facilities, reduce mental load on programmers and speed up tedious tasks. This could very well make people who take advantage of them better programmers (where "better" can be described in terms of efficiency). The less time I spend managing branches and doing merges/rebases the old way, the more time and effort I am able to devote to my primary task (actually programming).

I could manage patch files and tarballs with quilt, but I would be wasting my time and my productivity would drop. That would make me a "worse" programmer. If bad tools can hold me back, then better tools can improve me.
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It makes me sad, actually, that anyone has to justify creating useful little things because they are 'weapons'. You're making tools as content to get my (brief, sporadic) attention on some ads, so you get paid. 20k views a month for your greatest success - how much does that net you? And is it worth the mercenary attitude?
Yea, MS even begin to remove references to old Windows versions from MSDN after they go out of support.
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The Readiband provides clinical level sleep and fatigue analysis. It is FDA approved and is 93% accurate which is why it is also used by reserach groups like Harvard Medical School and the FAA research group. The other technologies call themselves consumer "gadgets" for a good reason. There is little or no science behind the products. Consumers should always ask, "Where is the validation?"
Tell us more about your position in TSLA.
As a Brazilian living in the UK for about 5 years now.
It's worth noticing that R$ 678,00 is the current minimum wage in Brazil, which means that it would take around 4 months and 2 weeks to save up, before tax, and not buying anything else in order to get your hands on just the console. I'm 22 and I was very fortunate, to have a family that could provide me pretty much anything I wanted. The contrast between the rich and the poor is so damn high it makes me sick.
Macros, scripting.
Whichever hacked first will be one sold most in Brazil.
I suspect that will be xbone.
The μ means micro, so it must be small! ;)

Taking 300μg LSD would make most people quite... uncomfortable. A normal recreational dose is 100μg, so I'm not sure how what this guy has done is in any way similar to microdosing unless he weighs about 1,000 lbs.
In front of you there is a glass of water. You see it, you can touch it, you can drink it. You know it is there. You believe it is there.

You are wrong! In fact, the water does not exist, the glass does not exist. You do not exist.

Could this be? No, you say, I have proof that the water exists: "I can drink it". Not really. You think you can drink it. But you are not there. The water is not there. Maybe you are in the matrix.

Just like that, any kind of rational discussion is impossible. "Hard water believing", believing that the water exists just because you think you can drink it, is not rational - after all, it could not exist.

Should science work like this? Should science explain, when stating any theory, that it could be that all stated facts are maybe not real? Obviously not. Science only cares about falsifiable theories: theories which can be disproved. The rest, from the point of view of science, does not exist.

From the point of view of science, the water exists and god does not exist. Neither do the golden unicorn, or the green monster. God believers, and water deniers, when using those believes in the realm science, are making science a disservice, since they are allowing for non-rational conversation - and thus destroying any kind of rational discourse.
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This rant has been brewing for many years...

Everything's been downhill since VS6. I'm only joking, but seriously, does anyone remember how lightning fast VS6 was? That was over 15 years ago with much slower computers. I guess application 'snappiness' has not been a priority for the Visual Studio decision makers.

I've used VS since the late 90s (writing node.js in ST2 now) and honestly appreciate the hard work and cool features that goes into it. The new VS2013 feature that shows how often a function is referenced is useful. I don't get that in ST2 and probably never will. But I've used VS enough that I've become philosophically opposed to it and other similar IDEs. The core of the problem for me was that all the fancy wizards and project templates are not maintainable for MS. There were a number of times I was using some new project type introduced in a version of VS only to find the template was incompatible in the next version (e.g. reporting in 2005). This inevitably lead to a lot of unexpected work when my team would upgrade. Many of the productivity wizards impose hidden debt on their users.

Another major gripe was that VS would get really sludgy for solutions with a great number of projects/files. Take note that whenever you see MS demo a hot new feature, it's always with a very simple solution. Also, VS would block for me a lot, but that was probably due using too many plugins. I'd find that an application freeze of even 2 seconds would distract me. Not an issue I face now with a text editor + repl.

</rant>
Good job.

But the question;

"Can Apple read my messages?"

is just a funny question.
The real question should be

"Why does Apple want to read my messages?"

If you send data to a specific provider using their software, then conceptually, all your data is already in their hands. Nothing to prove.

So the point becomes motivation.

Apple lose money if they lose customer's privacy. And they don't make big money from personal informations. They make money from customer's trust. So it's very unlikely to happen - the situation that Apple wants to read your message.

Let's see another example. Google. The company officially scan and read all customers mails for advertising. And they make money - big money - from personal informations. Highly motivated to read your message.

I don't say Google does. I just say Google is highly motivated.
FWIW, there is talk of adding async/await like features (C#, Python) to TypeScript in a post 1.0 release.
A superb short, but a very expensive one (more than a third of float is short). Too much risk of a squeeze right now. I have fair value at $65 with 8-10% WACC even with optimistic top-line growth for the next 6-10 years and 4% terminal growth. That said, it's not wise to short on valuation (especially with today's levels of retail money flow).

Throwaway because I'm in the industry (and currently hold TSLA puts)
Interesting post. Looking forward to seeing RelateIQ present on this at the meetup at MongoDB this afternoon.
> In proportional representation you would cast your ballot for e.g. The Democratic Party.

You are confusing "proportional representation" (which is a continuous-valued property of many election systems) with "party list proportional" which is a particular election system for achieving a high value of proportional representation.

Notably, Single Transferrable Vote is a system in which people vote for candidates as they do in FPTP elections (except using preference ballots), but which is designed to acheive proportional representation.